Sergio Galindo
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Sergio Galindo (September 2, 1926 - January 3, 1993) was a Mexican novelist and short-story writer. He was born in Jalapa in the state of Veracruz, a region of Mexico that figures prominently in much of his writing. His most widely-acclaimed novels are El Bordo (“The Precipice”, 1960) and Otilia Rauda (1986), the latter filmed as La Mujer del Pueblo in 2001. Galindo studied at the Mexican National Autonomous University (UNAM) and in Paris. He was the founder and first director of the Veracruz University Press, where he also founded and edited the journal La Palabra y el Hombre (“The Word and the Man”). He was Director of the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes (National Institute of Fine Arts) from 1974 to 1976.
He was awarded the following prizes and honours: Honorary Officer of the Order of the British Empire, Polish award for Cultural Merit, Order of the Star of Yugoslavia, Mariano Azuela Prize, the Bellas Artes Literature Prize, the Xavier Villarrutia Prize and the José Fuentes Mares Prize. He was elected to the Mexican Academy of the Language in 1975.
His works have been translated into English, French, Polish and German.
[edit] Novels
- Polvos de arroz (translated into English as “Rice Powder”), 1958
- La justicia de enero, 1959
- El Bordo (translated into English as “The Precipice”), 1960
- La comparsa, 1964
- Nudo, 1970
- Los dos ángeles, 1984
- Declive, 1985
- Otilia Rauda (translated into English as “Otilia’s Body”), 1986
[edit] Short Stories
- La máquina vacía, 1951
- ¡Oh hermoso mundo!, 1975
- El hombre de los hongos, 1976 (filmed in 1980)
- Este laberinto de hombres, 1979
- Cuentos, 1982
- Terciopelo violeta, 1985
