- Jaime Sabines
Jaime Sabines Gutiérrez (
March 25 ,1926 -March 19 ,1999 ) is arguably Mexico's most influential contemporary poet.Fact|date=July 2008 Known as “the sniper of Literature” Fact|date=July 2008as he formed part of a group that transformed literature into reality, he wrote ten volumes of poetry, and his work has been translated into more than twelve languages. His writings chronicle the experience of everyday people in places such as the street, hospital, and playground. Sabines was also a politician.Biography
Jaime Sabines was born on
March 25 ,1926 inTuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas .Before he devoted himself to the study of literature, he spent three years studying medicine before moving on to his real vocation: Spanish and literature, studying at the
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), and obtaining a postgraduate degree. Sabines was an outstanding student at theMexican Writers Centre from 1964 to 1965 and part of the jury for theCasa de las Americas prize . In addition to his literary activity, he participated in politics and became a federal deputy for the state ofChiapas from 1976 to 1979, and for theFederal District in 1988. Sabines was awarded the Chiapas Award (1979), theXavier Villaurrutia Award (1972), the Elias Sourasky Award (1982) and the National Literature Award (1983).A collection of his work, "Nuevo recuento de poemas", was issued by the publisher Joaquín Mortiz in 1977, and the Secretary of Education in 1986. In 1994 he received from the
Senate of Mexico theBelisario Domínguez Medal of Honor ; in 1995, his selected poems, "Pieces of Shadow" (trans. W.S. Merwin), was brought out in a bilingual edition by Papeles Privados; and in 2004 Exile Editions (Toronto, Canada) published a bilingual volume of two early Sabines books, Adam and Eve & Weekly Diary and Poems in Prose (trans. Colin Carberry.) Octavio Paz considered him “one of the greatest contemporary poets of our tongue.”Jaime Sabines died on
March 19 ,1999 inMexico City .Published Poetry
*Horal
*La Señal (1951)
*Adán y Eva (1952)
*Tarumba (1956)
*Diario Semanario y poemas en prosa (1961)
*Poemas Sueltos (1951-1961)
*Yuria (1967)
*Maltiempo (1972)
*Algo sobre la muerte del Mayor Sabines (1973)
*Otros Poemas Sueltos (1973-1994)Awards Received
*1959 Premio Chiapas, El Ateneo de Ciencias y Artes de Chiapas
ee also
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Tuxtla Gutiérrez
*Chiapas
*Mexican literature External links
*http://www.geocities.com/poetasabines/
*http://www.tameme.org/issue_1/sabines.html
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