Celorio was born in México 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 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, 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]
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