Elena Poniatowska
Born: 1932-05-19 in France
Known For: Acting
Biography
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.
Filmography
2025
- Leonora in the Morning Light ... (Novel)
- Memoria de Los Olvidados as Self
2023
- Ven Acá... con Eugenia León y Pavel Granados as Self
- Booklovers as Self
2022
- Pedro as Self
2020
- Ana as Escritora (México)
- Xico's Journey as Cuca (voice)
2017
2016
2013
- Tina Modotti: Dogma and Passion as Herself
2012
- Leonora Carrington - The Surrealist Game as Self
- Made in Mexico as Self
- El Santos vs la Tetona Mendoza as Self / Additional Voices (voice)
2011
- The Storm That Swept Mexico as Self - Novelist/Journalist (as Elena Poniatowska Amor)
2009
1997
- Esmeralda Comes by Night ... (Writer)