Vicente Quirarte

Vicente Quirate (Mexico City, 1954) is a Mexican poet and writer. He received a doctorate in Mexican Literature at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in 1998. He was elected as member of the Mexican Academy of Language in 2002, and took possession of the XXXI seat on 19 June 2003. He was director of the Mexican National Library between 2004 and 2008.

Awards: 

In 1979 he won the Francisco González León National Youth Poetry Prize. In 1990 he received the José Revueltas National Literary Essay Prize and in 1991 the Xavier Villaurrutia Prize. In 2011 he was awarded the Ramón López Velarde Ibero-American Poetry Prize in the city of Jerez, Zacatecas.

Other titles from author: 

Our Street (1979), Theatre About Armed Wind (1979), Beating the Whiteness (1982), Fra Filippo Lippi. Lucrecia Butti’s Songbook (1982), Magdalena Bay (1984), Fragments of the Same Discourse (1986), Light Doesn’t Die Alone (1990), Aníbal Egea’s Notebook (1990), Quicksilver and Pomegranate: Gilberto Owen’s Amorous Discourse (1990), The Angel is a Vampire (1991), The Child and the Wind (1992), Scars from Various Geographies (1992), Fish from the Highest Air (1993), May Light (1994), Equipment to Survive the City (1994), Travels Around the Bedroom (1994), The Love that Destroys what it Invents, Stories from history (1995), Vampire Syntax: An Approximation of its Natural History (1996), Some Poems (1996), From Another Light (1996), Life At Times (2000), Sarabande with Yellow Dogs (2002), New Extraordinary Travels (2004), Name Without Air (2005), The Monster Considered as one of the Fine Arts (2005).

Author´s books