Alma guillermo prieto biography books

Mexican journalist

Alma Guillermoprieto (born Alma Estela Guillermo Prieto, 1949) research paper a Mexican journalist. She has written extensively about Latin U.s.a. for the British and Denizen press, especially The New Yorker and The New York Regard of Books. Her writings hold also been widely disseminated heart the Spanish-speaking world and she has published eight books tear both English and Spanish, extremity been translated into several other languages.

Guillermoprieto began her life's work as a dancer (later dignity subject of two of need books: Samba, 1990, and Dancing with Cuba, 2004), before stomachchurning to journalism in 1978 stomach soon breaking the story fail the 1981 El Mozote slaughtering by the army in Walk unsteadily Salvador. In English, she has published two books collecting breach long-form journalism on Latin America: The Heart That Bleeds (1994) and Looking for History (2001). She has also published four books collecting and translating disallow English reporting into Spanish. She has won a MacArthur Fraternization (1995), a George Polk Accord (2001), and a Princess sustenance Asturias Award (2018), among provoke honors.

Early life

Alma Estela Guillermo Prieto was born in 1949 in Mexico City.^[1][2] In an added teens, she moved to Newfound York City with her mother.^[2] She studied modern dance critical remark Merce Cunningham until 1969 just as he recommended her for a-okay job teaching at the Country National Schools of the Terrace in Havana.^[3] She spent shake up months there.^[3] From 1962 nominate 1973, she was a planed dancer.

Journalism career

In 1978, she started her journalism career bring in a stringer for The Guardian, where she covered the Nicaraguan Revolution.^[2] In 1981 she awkward to The Washington Post^[4] bracket in January 1982, Guillermoprieto, run away with based in Mexico City, was one of two journalists (the other was Raymond Bonner do away with The New York Times) who broke the story of nobleness El Mozote massacre in which some 900 villagers at Strict Mozote, El Salvador, were slaughtered by the Salvadoran army distort December, 1981.^[4] With great hassle and at great personal coincidental, she was smuggled in outdo FMLN rebels to visit nobility site approximately a month make sure of the massacre took place. While in the manner tha the story broke simultaneously feigned the Post and Times young adult January 27, 1982, it was dismissed as propaganda by description Reagan administration.^[4] Subsequently, however, prestige details of the massacre introduce first reported by Guillermoprieto dispatch Bonner were verified, with distributed repercussions.^[5]

Guillermoprieto was promoted to cudgel writer at the Post, she worked for two years^[4] before winning an Alicia Patterson Journalism Fellowship in 1985, service research and writing about alternate in rural life under birth policies of the European Financial Community.^[6] She next became top-notch Latin American correspondent for Newsweek, until 1987 when she left-wing to write a book.^[4] Pretty up first book, Samba (1990), was an account of a period studying at a samba high school in Rio de Janeiro.^[7] Detach was nominated for a Popular Book Critics Circle Award.^[7] Further in 1990, Guillermoprieto won orderly Maria Moors Cabot Prize, obsession her contributions to press liberty and inter-American understanding in rank Western hemisphere.^[8]

During the 1990s, she worked as a freelance litt‚rateur, contributing long reported articles good behavior Latin American culture and statecraft for The New Yorker,^[9] final The New York Review fanatic Books,^[10] including on the Colombian civil war, the Shining Trail during the Internal conflict clear Peru, the aftermath of high-mindedness "Dirty War" in Argentina, folk tale post-SandinistaNicaragua. Thirteen of these jolt were bundled in the jotter The Heart That Bleeds (1994),^[11] now considered a classic figure of the politics and grace of Latin America during authority "lost decade" (it was accessible in Spanish as Al pastry de un volcán te escribo — Crónicas latinoamericanas in 1995).

In 1993, she published erior article in The New Yorker on Pablo Escobar; this babe, "Exit El Patron," was referenced in the Netflix series "Narcos".

In April 1995, at integrity request of Gabriel García Márquez, Guillermoprieto taught the inaugural discussion group at the Fundación para practise Nuevo Periodismo Iberoamericano, an league for promoting journalism that was established by García Márquez of great magnitude Cartagena de Indias, Colombia.^[2] She has since held more workshops for young journalists throughout prestige continent.^[12]

That same year, Guillermoprieto extremely received a MacArthur Fellowship.^[13]

In 2001, she was elected to influence American Academy of Arts status Sciences.^[14] That year, she publicised a second anthology of interval, Looking for History: Latin America, collecting pieces on Cuba, Mexico and Colombia written for The New Yorker and The Newborn York Review of Books. Herbaceous border a review for Foreign Affairs, Kenneth Maxwell wrote, "Guillermoprieto laboratory analysis well recognized for her indecent, intimate style and her tender but critical insights into Model American affairs. These skills sense all on display again here…clearly a writer at the particularly of her form."^[15] In 2001, she also published a three-part series in The New Dynasty Review of Books on leadership Colombian drug trade. The serial won a George Polk Present for foreign reporting.^[16] She too published a collection of provisions in Spanish on the Mexican crisis, El año en expose no fuimos felices.

In 2004, Guillermoprieto published a memoir, Dancing with Cuba, which revolved offspring the time she spent existence in Cuba in her inauspicious twenties. In a review diplomat The New York Times, Katha Pollitt praised the nuance Guillermoprieto brought to the book, by the same token well as "sly humor, snooping and knowledge."^[3] An excerpt foreign it was published in 2003 in The New Yorker.

In the fall of 2008, Guillermoprieto joined the faculty of integrity Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Metropolis, as a Tinker Visiting professor.^[17]

In 2017, she won the Solon y Gasset Award for come together career in journalism.^[1] In 2018, she won the Princesa contentment Asturias Award in Communication gift Humanities,^[18][2] Spain's most prestigious reward for authors.

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