Author: Salvador Novo
Profile: Salvador Novo was a Mexican writer playwright, poet, entrepreneur, television presenter, translator and Mexico City’s official chronicler. Salvador Novo was popular for his wit. He has been a member of the Mexican Academy of the Language as well as a group of Mexican writers called Los Contemporaneous. He didn’t take any efforts to hide his sexuality and challenged the conservative and machismo Catholicism existing in Mexican culture during the twentieth century.
The government of Mexico accredited him however and accordingly held a number of culture related official posts. He also held a program on the history of Mexico on television. He wore colored suits, adorned numerous ostentatious rings and colored his hair bright carrot color, towards the last years of his life. Until his death, he never suffered any misfortune related to persecution, scandal and remained a respected and accepted member of government circles and society, until death.
Writing style: Salvador Novo has been able to have a positive impact on popular perceptions of arts, media and politics besides the society in Mexico, in general, being a well known intellectual.
Published Texts:
Works
1925 – XX Poems
1933 –New Love
1933 – Mirror
1934 –Romance of Angelillo and Adela
1934 –Proletarian Poems
1934 – Never ever
1937 – A Poem
1938 –Chosen Poems
1944 –Our Land
1945 – Florido laude
1945 –The Salt Statue
1955 –Eighteen Sonets
1955 –Satyre, the F*** Book
1961 –Poetry
1962 – Short History of Coyoacan
1967 – Gastronomic History of Mexico City
1967 – Image of a City
1867 – Mexico City
1971 – History and Legend of Coyoacan
Theatre
La Capilla (a cultural project in which an old chapel was built into a theatre
1947 – Don Quijote
1948 – Witness
1948 – The Wise Lady
1953 – Eight Columns
Dialogues
Yocasta or Almost
Cuauhtemoc
The War of the Fat Ones
Ulises is back
The Sofa
The Enchanted Mirror
Awards and Acknowledgements:
A Street where he resides was renamed after Salvador Novo in accordance with tradition, after he took up the role of official chronicler of Mexico City, a post he assumed for life.
A Doodle was shown by Google on July 30, 2014 in celebration of his 110th birthday
Mexican Academy of Letters Member
1967 - National Prize for Literature Recipient
Mexico City's Official Chronicler