Sergio Pitol Deméneghi was a Mexican writer, translator and diplomat. In 2005, he received the Cervantes Prize, the most prestigious literary award in the Spanish-speaking world.
Margo Glantz Shapiro is a Mexican writer, essayist, critic and academic. She has been a member of the Academia Mexicana de la Lengua since 1995. She is a recipient of the FIL Award.
Juan José Díaz Infante Núñez was a Mexican architect and industrial designer.
Blanca López de Mariscal or Blanca Guadalupe López Morales is a Professor emeritus and researcher in literature at Tecnológico de Monterrey, Campus Monterrey, México.
Arnoldo Vizcaíno Rodríguez is a Mexican politician, founder and former chairman of the Party of the Democratic Revolution chapter in the state of Colima. He served in the LII Legislature of the Congress of Colima, where he served a stint as President. He also ran for governor in the 1991 state elections.
Teresa del Conde Pontones was a Mexican art critic and art historian.
José Gordon is a Mexican novelist, essayist, translator and cultural journalist. He worked as anchorman in Noticiario Cultural 9:30 and in the literary gazette Luz Verde in Canal 22. He is editor in chief in the gazette La Cultura en México of the magazine Siempre!. He collaborates with the newspapers La Jornada and Reforma. He was acknowledged with the National Journalism Award in 1994.
Rosa María Beltrán Álvarez is a Mexican novelist, short story writer, essayist, and translator. She was the deputy director of La Jornada Semanal from 1999 to 2002 and has been a member of the Sistema Nacional de Creadores from 1997 to 2000. She was the director of the Literature department at the UNAM and is actually the chair in Coordinación de Difusión Cultural at UNAM. On June 12, 2014, she was appointed as a member by the Academia Mexicana de la Lengua as the 36th Chair, becoming the tenth woman to hold this position.
María Luisa Mendoza, also known as La China Mendoza, was a Mexican journalist, novelist and politician. She served as a federal delegate from the state of Guanajuato to the 53rd Mexican legislature.
Daniel Cazés Menache was a Mexican anthropologist and gender studies scholar.
Tomás Chávez Morado was an artist from Silao, Guanajuato, Mexico. He taught at public schools, the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura, and the Escuela de Artes Plásticas at the Universidad de Guanajuato, where he served as the director of the School of Visual Arts. His civic installations include El Paraguas and the national shield carving displayed at the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City as well as 260 monumental eagle head sculptures marking the route of Hidalgo the Liberator. According to Mexican Life, Mexico's Monthly Review, the work of Chávez Morado "creates visions of typical life in the streets, images of people one might find in the markets, at the ferias or inside the tenement patios, with a thematic emphasis on love and the mother and child."
Ricardo Garibay was a Mexican writer and journalist. He studied law at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, where he was also a professor of literature. He also served as the chief of press for the Secretariat of Public Education and hosted the television program "Kaleidoscope" on the Imevisión Channel 13 network, Imevisión. He was president of the College of Sciences and Arts of Hidalgo in Pachuca.
Aline Pettersson is a Mexican novelist and poet. Her novels deal with the themes of loneliness, heartbreak, isolation and the passage of time that razes all.
José Luis Paredes Pacho is a Mexican musician, researcher, writer and cultural advocate. He is the founder of the new cycle of Poesía en voz alta Mexican poetry festival, Radical Mestizo's Festival de Mexico music program and founder member of Maldita Vecindad y los Hijos del Quinto Patio where he was drummer during 18 years. He is one of the researchers about Rock music in Mexico and counterculture movements in the country.
Héctor Ortega Gómez was a Mexican film, television, and theater actor. He was also a screenwriter and a director.
Fernando Curiel Defossé was a Mexican writer, lawyer and professor at the National Autonomous University of Mexico since 1980.
Margarita Peña was a Mexican writer, translator and researcher, doctor of letters, teacher and emeritus professor at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. Her work focused on Mexican literature of the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries. Her awards include: Premio Universidad Nacional, Premio de la Cámara Nacional de la Industria Editorial, Premio Huehuetlatolli, Premio de Crítica Literaria, and Premio ComuArte.
Rafael Saavedra was a Mexican author who contributed to magazines Letras Libres, Generación, Moho, Nexos, Replicante, Pícnic, among other publications and literary spaces, including online publications.
Edmundo Hernández-Vela Salgado is professor emeritus of international relations at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and co-founder of UNAM's Center for International Relations.
