One of Mexico’s most beloved writers, Elena Poniatowska is a founder of the newspaper La Jornada and the country’s first feminist magazine, Fem. She’s the recipient of the Cervantes Prize, the most ...

The author and journalist Elena Poniatowska, who gained fame in Mexico for her chronicles of social injustice and government repression, is this year’s winner of the Miguel de Cervantes Prize, the ...

Elena Poniatowska won the 2013 Cervantes Prize -- the most prestigious award in Spanish-language literature -- and is still active at the age of 93 Poniatowska's son Felipe Haro said the family had ...

MIAMI – The famous Mexican writer Elena Poniatowska, who visited Miami for a writers’ fair, on Sunday called the likely massacre of 43 students a “great shame” for Mexico, and compared it to her ...

In Mexico, turmoil and confusion continue to surround the upcoming presidential election. Last week, the Mexican federal Congress voted to impeach one of the leading candidates from his job as mayor ...

Ask an American to name the most tumultuous events of 1968 and we’ll recall the King and Kennedy assassinations and the rioting at the Democratic convention in Chicago. Ask about international ...

The blood was still on the ground. On the evening of Oct. 2, 1968, the administration of Mexican President Gustavo Díaz Ordaz orchestrated a massacre of student protesters in Mexico City’s Tlatelolco ...

MEXICO CITY — Elena Poniatowska types slowly now. She works in a small, sunlit office, next to a painting of a woman pulling on an enormous tree with a thin rope. The tree bends away from her, on the ...

Last month, Mexican writer Elena Poniatowska received the Cervantes prize in Spain. This is the most important award that any writer can receive in the Spanish language. It is similar to the Nobel ...

An old Smith Corona typewriter, letters from literary contemporaries and photographs are part of the items spanning the life of renowned Mexican writer and journalist Elena Poniatowska to go on ...