Ethel Krauze
Ethel Kolteniuk Krauze | |
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.jpg) Ethel Krauze at the Casa de Cultura Tamaulipas, Mexico City | |
| Born | June 14, 1954 |
| Alma mater | National Autonomous University of Mexico |
| Occupation(s) | Writer, television presenter |
| Notable work | Infinita |
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| Relatives | Berta Kolteniuk (sister), Miguel Krauze (brother), Enrique Krauze (cousin) |
| Website | Luis Kolteniuk Talesnik |
Ethel Krauze (Mexico City, June 14, 1954) is a Mexican writer and television presenter.
Biography
[edit]Ethel Kolteniuk Krauze was born in 1954 in Mexico City to Polish philosopher Rosa Krauze Pacht and Russian doctor Luis Kolteniuk Talesnik, both Jews.[1] She has a sister, Berta Kolteniuk, and a brother, Miguel. Her cousin is the writer Enrique Krauze.
She studied Hispanic languages and literature at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. Since then, she has served as the host for the television show Cara al Futuro, broadcast on Canal Once (Mexico).[2] Krauze often collaborates with newspapers that have a national audience like El Universal and Excélsior.[3]
Her novel Infinita ("Infinite") was one of the first to speak openly about lesbianism and it is considered a landmark work of LGBT literature in Mexico.[4]
Works
[edit]Some of Krauze's most notable works are:
- Intermedio para mujeres (1982)
- Para cantar (1984)
- Donde las cosas vuelan (1985)
- El lunes te amaré (1987)
- Canciones de amor antiguo (1988)
- Ha venido a buscarte (1989)
- Entre la cruz y la estrella (1990)
- Cómo acercarse a la poesía (1992)
- Infinita (1992)
- Mujeres en Nueva York (1992)
- Juan (1994)
- Houston (1996)
- Amoreto (1999)
- El secreto de la infidelidad (2000)
- Desnudando a la musa: ¿qué hay detrás del talento literario? (2011)
- Todos los hombres (2012)
- El país de las mandrágoras (2016)
- Samovar (Alfaguara, 2023)
References
[edit]- ^ "Rosa Krauze de Kolteniuk, Filósofa que dedicó toda una vida a la cátedra universitaria" [Rosa Krauze from Kolteniuk, philosopher who dedicated her whole life to being a university professor]. Diario de la vida judía de México y el mundo (in Spanish). 2014-04-01. Archived from the original on 2023-05-10. Retrieved 2024-08-05.
- ^ "Jus » Dulce cuchillo". web.archive.org. 2010-04-08. Retrieved 2024-08-05.
- ^ "Diccionario de Escritores en México - Artes e Historia México". web.archive.org. 2012-05-29. Retrieved 2024-08-05.
- ^ Muñoz, Mario (2011-03-31). "La literatura mexicana de transgresión sexual" [Sexual transgression in Mexican literature]. Amerika. Mémoires, identités, territoires (in Spanish) (4). doi:10.4000/amerika.1921. ISSN 2107-0806.
External links
[edit]- Interview with Ethel Krauze on Redescolar.ilce.edu.mx (in Spanish)
