Juan Bañuelos

Juan Banuelos (Tuxtla Gutierrez, Chiapas, 1932) is one of today's most popular Mexican poets. He has published eleven books of poetry and has received the Chiapas Prize (Mexico, 1984), the Palermo Prize (Italy, 1987), and the Jose Lezama Lima Prize (Cuba, 2004), among others. He is also a renowned editor and university professor. From 1994 to the present, he has formed part of the National Commission of Intermediation, propitiator of the dialogue between the Mexican government and the Zapatista...See more

Juan Banuelos (Tuxtla Gutierrez, Chiapas, 1932) is one of today's most popular Mexican poets. He has published eleven books of poetry and has received the Chiapas Prize (Mexico, 1984), the Palermo Prize (Italy, 1987), and the Jose Lezama Lima Prize (Cuba, 2004), among others. He is also a renowned editor and university professor. From 1994 to the present, he has formed part of the National Commission of Intermediation, propitiator of the dialogue between the Mexican government and the Zapatista Army of National Liberation. His poems have been translated into numerous languages, and now here, for the first time, English. See less