Known For
Acting
Born
May 19, 1932
Place of Birth
France
Credits
22 titles
Elena Poniatowska
Biography
Hélène Elizabeth Louise Amélie Paula Dolores Poniatowska Amor (born May 19, 1932), known professionally as Elena Poniatowska is a French-born Mexican journalist and author, specializing in works on social and political issues focused on those considered to be disenfranchised especially women and the poor. She was born in Paris to upper-class parents, including her mother whose family fled Mexico during the Mexican Revolution. She left France for Mexico when she was ten to escape the Second World War. When she was eighteen and without a university education, she began writing for the newspaper Excélsior, doing interviews and society columns. Despite the lack of opportunity for women from the 1950s to the 1970s, she wrote about social and political issues in newspapers, books in both fiction and nonfiction form. Her best known work is La noche de Tlatelolco (The night of Tlatelolco, the English translation was entitled "Massacre in Mexico") about the repression of the 1968 student protests in Mexico City. Due to her leftwing views, she has been nicknamed "the Red Princess". She is considered to be "Mexico's grande dame of letters" and is still an active writer.
Known For
Filmography
Juan Gabriel: Mi Primer Bellas Artes
Herself
Memoria de Los Olvidados
Self
Leonora in the Morning Light
Novel
Booklovers
Self
Ven Acá... con Eugenia León y Pavel Granados
Self
Pedro
Self
Xico's Journey
Cuca (voice)
Ana
Escritora (México)
Leonora Carrington: The Lost Surrealist
Self (interviewee)
One Hundred Years with Juan Rulfo
Self
The Busty Doll
Chaos and Order: Manuel Felguérez and His Abstract Work
Between Cuba and Mexico, Everything is Bonito & Sabroso
Alaide Foppa Falla, The Unfortunate One
Tina Modotti: Dogma and Passion
Herself
El Santos vs la Tetona Mendoza
Self / Additional Voices (voice)
Made in Mexico
Self
Leonora Carrington - The Surrealist Game
Self
The Storm That Swept Mexico
Self - Novelist/Journalist (as Elena Poniatowska Amor)
José Emilio Pacheco: me llamo Nadie
Self
Esmeralda Comes by Night
Writer
Asaltar los cielos