Guillermo Sheridan | |
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| Born | Guillermo Humberto Sheridan Prieto[1] (1950-08-27)27 August 1950 (age 74) Mexico City,Mexico |
| Language | Spanish |
| Alma mater | Universidad Iberoamericana (BA) University of East Anglia (MA) National Autonomous University of Mexico (PhD) |
| Subject | Modern Mexican poetry |
| Notable awards | Xavier Villaurrutia Award (1989), Fernando Benítez for Cultural Journalism (2011) |
Guillermo Humberto Sheridan Prieto (born 27 August 1950) is a Mexican literary critic, scholar and public commentator.
Sheridan was born inMexico City. He was aChevening Scholar at theUniversity of East Anglia in 1986.[2] He was awarded a doctorate in Mexican literature by theNational Autonomous University of Mexico. He is a member of Mexico'sSistema Nacional de Investigadores, a government agency established in 1984 to promote both the quantity and quality of research.
As a scholar, most of his writing deals with the history of Mexicanmodern poetry in books likeLos Contemporáneos ayer (1985),Un corazón adicto (1990, a biography ofRamón López Velarde),México en 1932 (1999, a study of Mexican nationalism),Poeta con Paisaje (2004, a biography ofNobel laureate poetOctavio Paz),Tres ensayos sobreGilberto Owen (2008, essays about a Mexican poet),Paralelos y meridianos (2010, literary essays),Señales debidas (2011, essays about Mexican writers and poets of the 20th century) andMalas palabras. Jorge Cuesta y la revista Examen (2011, a history of modern literary censorship in Mexico). His latest book,Habitación con retratos (2015) is the second volume of a trilogy about Octavio Paz's life and work. Sheridan has also edited works by poets such asJosé Juan Tablada,Ramón López Velarde andJosé Gorostiza.[3]
Sheridan has written extensively about politics, education and everyday life in some of Mexico's most prestigious newspapers, such asReforma andLa Jornada. He was a monthly collaborator to Octavio Paz's reviewVuelta, and continues to publish a monthly article inEnrique Krauze’sLetras Libres and a weekly commentary inEl Universal, a major daily newspaper. Several volumes of his chronicles have been published over the years:Frontera norte (1988),Cartas de Copilco y otras postales (1993),Lugar a dudas (1999),El encarguito (2007) andViaje al centro de mi tierra (2011). His writings about the problems of higher education in Mexico were collected inAllá en el campus grande (2001). In 1996 he published an infamous satirical novel about Mexican politics,El dedo de oro (Alfaguara, 1996). He has a blog called "El Minutario", hosted byLetras Libres.
Sheridan has also written about Mexican art. The bookManuel Álvarez Bravo: Eyes in His Eyes, a collection of unpublished photographs, published by D.A.P. in 2007, has a text written by Sheridan.
He has been a longtime collaborator of film directorNicolás Echevarría, with whom he wrote the script for the 1990 motion pictureCabeza de Vaca and several documentaries about Mexican indigenous cultures.[4][better source needed]
A full-time professor and researcher at theNational Autonomous University of Mexico, Sheridan has been a visiting scholar at theUniversity of Aberdeen in Scotland; at theSorbonne Nouvelle in France; and atBoston University and theUniversity of Texas in the United States.
In 1989 he was awarded theXavier Villaurrutia Award, a national literary prize.
In 2011 he received the "Fernando Benítez Cultural Journalism" national award by theGuadalajara International Book Fair.
In 2014 he received the "Ramón López Velarde Prize", a national literary award.
In 2019 he received the "Jorge Ibargüengoitia Prize", a national literary award.
