Gonzalo Celorio

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Gonzalo Celorio
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Gonzalo Celorio in 2015
Born (1948-03-25) 25 March 1948 (age 77)
Mexico City
Occupation
  • Writer
  • Editor
LanguageSpanish
Alma mater UNAM
Genre
  • Novel
  • Essay
Notable works
  • Mentideros de la memoria
  • El metal y la escoria
Notable awards

Gonzalo Edmundo Celorio Blasco [a] (born 25 March 1948) is a Mexican writer, essayist, literary critic and academic.

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He won the Miguel de Cervantes Prize, the most prestigious literary award in the Spanish-speaking world, in 2025.

Biography

Celorio was born in Mexico City in 1948. His family life was narrated in the novels Tres lindas cubanas, published in 2006, where he talks about his mother's family; [1] El metal y la escoria, published in 2014, about his father's family and Los apóstatas, published in 2020, about two of his twelve brothers. [2]

Celorio studied literature and philology at the School of Philosophy and Letters of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). He was a student of historian Edmundo O'Gorman. Between 2000 and 2002 he was the director of the Fondo de Cultura Económica. [2] [3]

Celorio has written five novels, Amor Propio, [4] a coming-of-age story, Y retiemble en sus centros la Tierra [5] and the Una familia ejemplar trilogy about his family [2] (Tres lindas cubanas, El metal y la escoria and Los apóstatas). [6]

Awards, fellowships and recognition

In 1986, he received the Cultural Journalism Award, granted by the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura (INBA), for Los subrayados son míos; in 1997, he was awarded the Prix des deux océans, given by the Biarritz Festival, for his work El viaje sedentario, translated into French; and in 1999, the National IMPAC/CONARTE/ITESM Novel Award for the novel Y retiemble en sus centros la tierra. [7]

He was elected as a member of the Academia Mexicana de la Lengua (Mexican Academy of Language) in 1995. In February 2019 he became director of the institution. [3]

In 2011, he was awarded the National Prize for Arts and Sciences in the Linguistics and literature, the highest distincion the Mexican government gives to artists. [8]

He is also a member of the Academia Cubana de la Lengua. [9]

In 2015, he was awarded the Premio Mazatlán de Literatura  [ es ] for his novel El metal y la escoria. In 2023, he received the Xavier Villaurrutia Award for his memoirs Mentideros de la memoria. [10] [11]

Celorio received Spain's Cervantes Prize in 2025 for his "exceptional literary work and intellectual endeavours, through which he has made a profound and sustained contribution to the enrichment of the Spanish language and culture". [12] [13]

Works

Novels

Essay

Memoirs

References

  1. ↑ In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Celorio and the second or maternal family name is Blasco .
  1. ↑ Montaño Garfias, Ericka (3 August 2008). "Con Tres lindas cubanas, Gonzalo Celorio logra exorcizarse de la isla – La Jornada". www.jornada.com.mx. Retrieved 2025-07-12.
  2. 1 2 3 Sabogal, Winston Manrique (2020-10-10). "Gonzalo Celorio: "Un lector es aquel que, al asomarse a la vida secreta de los demás, descubre sus propios secretos"". WMagazín (in Spanish). Retrieved 2025-07-12.
  3. 1 2 "Gonzalo Celorio". Academia Mexicana de la Lengua. Retrieved 9 December 2024.
  4. ↑ "Miami alista su Feria del Libro". El Universal (in Spanish). 14 November 2010. Retrieved 8 February 2011.
  5. ↑ Sandra Licona (19 May 2006). "La Revolución Cubana, un reencuentro crítico". El Universal (in Spanish). Retrieved 8 February 2011.
  6. 1 2 Castillo, Glenda (16 January 2021). "Los apóstatas". El Financiero. El Financiero. Retrieved 12 July 2025.
  7. ↑ "Celorio, Gonzalo". Literatura INBA. Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura. Retrieved 12 July 2025.
  8. ↑ "La Jornada: Solares, Loaeza y Palau, entre los reconocidos con el Premio Nacional de Ciencias y Artes". La Jornada (in Spanish). 2010-11-17. Retrieved 2025-02-09.
  9. ↑ "Academia Cubana de la Lengua". acul.ohc.cu. 2004-01-01. Archived from the original on 2014-08-29. Retrieved 2025-07-12.
  10. ↑ Palma, David. "Obtiene Gonzalo Celorio el Premio Xavier Villaurrutia de Escritores para Escritores 2022 por Mentideros de la memoria". Inicio (in Spanish). Retrieved 2025-07-12.
  11. ↑ "Gonzalo Celorio recibió el Premio Xavier Villaurrutia 2022". Quadratín Oaxaca (in Spanish). 2023-07-19. Retrieved 2025-07-12.
  12. ↑ "Gonzalo Celorio, Premio Cervantes 2025". Ministerio de Cultura (in Spanish). 2025-11-03. Retrieved 2025-11-03.
  13. ↑ Iniguez de Onzono, Javier (4 November 2025). "'Celebrating a lifetime of literature': Gonzalo Celorio wins Spain's coveted Cervantes Prize 2025". Euronews .
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