Recipients of the Belisario Domnguez Medal - Fidel Velzquez Snchez, Carlos Fuentes, Rufino Tamayo, Leopoldo Zea Aguilar (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Fidel Velzquez Snchez, Carlos Fuentes, Rufino Tamayo, Leopoldo Zea Aguilar, Belisario Domnguez Medal of Honor, Dr. Atl, Andrs Henestrosa, Miguel Len-Portilla, Ignacio Chvez Snchez, Hctor Fix-Zamudio, Jaime Torres Bodet, Jaime Sabines, Heriberto Jara Corona, Heberto Castillo, Jess Silva Herzog, Carlos Castillo Peraza, Carlos Canseco, Mara Lavalle Urbina, Salvador Zubirn, Gustavo Baz Prada, Gonzalo Aguirre Beltrn, Rosaura Zapata. Excerpt: Andrs Henestrosa Andrs Henestrosa Morales (November 30, 1906 January 10, 2008) was a Mexican writer and politician. In addition to his prose and poetry, Henestrosa was elected to the federal legislature, serving three terms in the Chamber of Deputies, and as a senator for the state of Oaxaca from 1982 to 1988. He was born in Ixhuatn, Oaxaca . Youth and studies Andrs Henestrosa started studying at Juchitn, Oaxaca. Until he was 15 he only could speak his native language, Zapotec . After finishing his basic education, Henestrosa moved to Mexico City and started studying at the National Teacher's School, where he learned Spanish excellently. Then, he studied at the National High School and after, at the Jurisprudence National School, where he started law studies but he did not graduate. At the same time, he studied at the Philosophy and Literature Faculty at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). Around that time (1927) one of his teachers, Alfonso Caso, encouraged what would be the start of his career: he suggested Henestrosa write down Zapotec myths, legends and fables, which formed the basis of his first book, The Men Scattered by Dance, published in 1929. Henestrosa contributed in many ways to Zapotec culture, keeping a line of investigation and exaltation of it; he also was one of the Mexican exponents of the...