Elena Poniatowska
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
ActingBirthday
May 19, 1932Gender
FemaleKnown Movie Credits
15Place of birth
FranceCast credits
Made in Mexico
SelfPedro
SelfTina Modotti: Dogma and Passion
HerselfEl Santos vs la Tetona Mendoza
Self / Additional Voices (voice)Ana
Escritora (México)Leonora Carrington - The Surrealist Game
SelfThe Busty Doll
Chaos and Order: Manuel Felguérez and His Abstract Work
Xico's Journey
Cuca (voice)Asaltar los cielos
Cien años con Juan Rulfo
Herself