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Elena Poniatowska

Elena Poniatowska

Actress

Hélène Elizabeth Louise Amélie Paula Dolores Poniatowska Amor (born May 19, 1932), 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 to be disenfranchised especially women and the poor. She was born in Paris to upper-class parents, including her mother whose family fled Mexico during the Mexican Revolution. She left France for Mexico when she was ten to escape the Second World War. When she was eighteen and without a university education, 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, books in both fiction and nonfiction form. Her best known work is La noche de Tlatelolco (The night of Tlatelolco, the English translation was entitled "Massacre in Mexico") about the repression of the 1968 student protests in Mexico City. Due to her leftwing views, she has been nicknamed "the Red Princess". She is considered to be "Mexico's grande dame of letters" and is still an active writer.

Born: May 19, 1932 (Age 92) in France

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Elena Poniatowska  Movies & TV Credits

Title Rating Job Role(s) Year
Movie
6.7
ActressSelf2012
Movie
7.5
Actress2016
Movie
5.4
ActressCuca (voice)2020
Movie
7.2
Actress1996
Movie
6.4
ActressSelf / Additional Voices (voice)2012
Movie
7.9
ActressEscritora (México)2020
Movie
6.2
ActressSelf2012
TV Show
ActressSelf
1 Episode
2023
Short Film
7.5
Actress2017
Movie
6.1
WritingWriter1997
Title Rating Job Role(s) Year
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