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Elena Poniatowska
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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, specia…
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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.
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2026
Juan Gabriel: Mi Primer Bellas Artes
Movie Herself
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2025
Memoria de Los Olvidados
Movie Self
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2025
Leonora in the Morning Light
Movie Novel
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2023
Booklovers
TV show Self
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2023
Ven Acá... con Eugenia León y Pavel Granados
TV show Self
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2022
Pedro
Movie Self
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2020
Xico's Journey
Movie Cuca (voice)
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2020
Ana
Movie Escritora (México)
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2017
Leonora Carrington: The Lost Surrealist
Movie Self (interviewee)
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2017
One Hundred Years with Juan Rulfo
Movie Self
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2017
The Busty Doll
Movie
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- 2014
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2013
Tina Modotti: Dogma and Passion
Movie Herself
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2012
El Santos vs la Tetona Mendoza
Movie Self / Additional Voices (voice)
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2012
Made in Mexico
Movie Self
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2012
Leonora Carrington - The Surrealist Game
Movie Self
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2011
The Storm That Swept Mexico
Movie Self - Novelist/Journalist (as Elena Poniatowska Amor)
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2009
José Emilio Pacheco: me llamo Nadie
Movie Self
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1997
Esmeralda Comes by Night
Movie Writer
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1996
Asaltar los cielos
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