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JORGE IBARGÜENGOITIA |
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 Born
in Guanajuato, Mexico, on January 22, 1928, Jorge Ibargüengoitia is one
of the most famous modern representatives of Mexican literature. Playwrite,
narrator, translator, essayist and reporter, he dropped engineering to study
Dramatic Arts at the Faculty of Philosophy of the National University of
Mexico where he later became professor of drama theory and composition.
In 1955 he obtained a scholarship from the Rockfellar Foundation to study
theatre in New York. In 1964 he was director of the Escuela de Verano at
Guanajuato University and a year later he was teaching at the Summer Institute
at Bradley. Ibargüengoitia collaborated with many periodicals and was scholarship
holder for theatre of the Centro Mexicano de Escritores in 1954 and 1956,
of the Fairfield Foundation in 1965 and the Guggenheim Foundation in 1969.
Particularly know for the humor in his works, he wrote a few mysteries that
are standouts in Latin American literature such as Two Crimes
and The Dead Girls. He died in Madrid on November
26 1979 in an air crash and was buried in Paris. |
