Sergio Galindo

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 and to the Spanish Royal Academy the following year.

His works have been translated into English, French, Polish, German and Italian.

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
*"El hombre de los hongos", 1976 (filmed in 1980)
*"Los dos ángeles", 1984
*"Declive", 1985
*"Otilia Rauda" (translated into English as “Otilia’s Body”), 1986

hort Story Collections

*"La máquina vacía", 1951
*"¡Oh hermoso mundo!", 1975
*"Este laberinto de hombres", 1979
*"Cuentos", 1982
*"Terciopelo violeta", 1985

Other Writing

*"Cartas a mi padre", 2007 (published posthumously)