Mexican Environmentalists - Homero Aridjis, Julieta Casimiro, Jaime Lagunez, Miguel Angehomero Aridjis, Julieta Casimiro, Jaime Lagunez, Miguel Angel de Quevedo, Flora Guerrero, Rodolfo Montiel Flores L de Quevedo, Flora Guerrero, Rodolfo Montiel Flores (Paperback)

Chapters: Homero Aridjis, Julieta Casimiro, Jaime Lagunez, Miguel Angel de Quevedo, Flora Guerrero, Rodolfo Montiel Flores, Edwin Bustillos. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 26. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Homero Aridjis (born April 6, 1940) is a Mexican writer and diplomat. Aridjis was born in Contepec, Michoacan, Mexico, on April 6, 1940, to a Greek father and Mexican mother; he was the youngest of five brothers. As a child, Aridjis would often walk up a hillside near his home to watch the migrating monarch butterflies. As he grew older logging thinned the forest. This and other events in his life caused him to co-found the Grupo de los Cien, the Group of 100, an association of one hundred artists and intellectuals that became heavily involved in trying to draw attention to and solve environmental problems in Mexico. Aridjis has published 38 books of poetry and prose, many of them translated into a dozen languages. His achievements include: the Xavier Villarrutia Prize for best book of the year for Mirandola dormir, in 1964; the Diana-Novedades Literary Prize for the outstanding novel in Spanish, for Memorias del nuevo mundo, in 1988; and the Premio Grinzane Cavour, for best foreign fiction, in 1992, for the Italian translation of 1492, Vida y tiempos de Juan Cabezon de Castilla.1492 The Life and Times of Juan Cabezon of Castile was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Twice the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, Aridjis has taught at Indiana University, New York University and Columbia, and held the Nichols Chair in Humanities and the Public Sphere at the University of California, Irvine. The Orion Society presented him with its John Hay Award for significant achievement in writing that addresses the relationship between people and nature. He received the Prix Rog...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=421163