by Elena Poniatowska · Booket · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788432200328
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«Leonora» is the biographical novel by Elena Poniatowska, published by Booket in paperback (512 pages, in Spanish).
A novel that follows the life of Leonora Carrington, from a comfortable childhood to her transformation into a central figure of Surrealist painting. Poniatowska portrays a woman who defies the conventions of her time to live and create freely, with an imagination that colours the entire story.
Winner of the Biblioteca Breve Prize 2011, this Booket edition was published in 2012 in the Novela collection.
For readers of literary fiction interested in biographies of artists, Surrealism, and female characters who break with their era.
Hélène Elizabeth Louise Amélie Paula Dolores Poniatowska Amor, known professionally as Elena Poniatowska, is a French-born Mexican journalist and author, specializing in works on social and political issues focused on those considered disenfranchised, especially women and the poor. She was born in Paris to upper-class parents. Her mother's family fled Mexico during the Mexican Revolution. She left France for Mexico when she was ten to escape World War II. When she was 18, she began writing for the newspaper Excélsior, doing interviews and society columns. Despite the lack of opportunity for women from the 1950s to the 1970s, she wrote about social and political issues in newspapers and both fiction and nonfiction books. Her best-known work is La noche de Tlatelolco: Testimonios de historia oral, about the repression of the 1968 student protests in Mexico City. Due to her left-wing views, she has been nicknamed "the Red Princess". She is considered "Mexico's grande dame of letters" and is still an active writer.
