Helen Kleinbort Krauze

Helen Kleinbort Krauze
Born Białystok, Poland
Residence Mexico City, Mexico
Nationality Mexican
Education University of Cambridge
Occupation Journalist and columnist
Years active 1959-
Employer Novedades
El Heraldo de México
El Sol de México
Known for her column, interviews, feature writing and travel journalism
Religion Jewish[1]
Children Enrique Krauze
Awards Premio de los Voceadores de México (1967)
Medalla Magdalena Mondragón (1989)
Premio Club Primera Plana (ca 2009)
Ampretur premier award for excellence in 2009
2012 AMPG award

Helen Kleinbort Krauze (born in Białystok) is an award-winning Polish-born[2] Mexican female Jewish journalist who worked for over five decades as an interviewer, features and travel writer and columnist first with Novedades, later with El Heraldo de México and more recently with Sol de Mexico and Protocolo magazine.[3]

Biographical

Helen Krauze arrived in Veracruz, Veracruz, Mexico, when she was a small child with her Jewish-immigrant parents, José Kleinbort and Eugenia Firman, via Santander, Spain to seek refuge from the German invasion of Poland, holocaust, and the war persecution of Jews elsewhere.[1][4][5] She attended Maddox Academy, a bilingual Spanish-English school, and later earned a degree in English literature from the University of Cambridge.[2][6] She lives in Mexico City.[7] She is the mother of one daughter and two sons, including Enrique Krauze, a Mexican historian and writer.[1][2]

Career

Before she was a journalist, Krauze wrote newsletters in the 1950s.[8]

Helen Krauze began her journalism career in 1959 when she was hired by Daniel Dueñas at the Novedades newspaper to conduct interviews. She became known for her interviews first at Novedades and then later at El Heraldo de México and El Sol de México. She published around 900 interviews during her career, including interviews with Carlos Monsivais, Sarita Montiel, Josephine Baker, Spanish actor Manolo Fabregas, Mexican author Hugo Argüelles (Los Cuervos están de luto), Elena Poniatowska, Emilio Portes Gil, Teddy Stauffer, and Pedro Friedeberg.[2][8][9] She was a journalist for Novedades until 1989 when she was hired by El Heraldo de México (known later as the Diario Monitor),[6] and she became known later for her column La Semana con Helen Krauze.[1][7] She also contributed to Protocolo, Kena, Actual, Claudia and Siempre.[10]

In order to support her family she supplemented her income by doing costume work for a few of Tulio Demicheli's films, such as Novia, esposa y amante (1981), and TV host for La hora de los locutores.[1]

Affiliations

On 4 October 1967 she became part of the group of journalists Veinte Mujeres y un Hombre ("Twenty Women and a Man"). This group, founded by Hylda Pino de Sandoval, encouraged women to be educated and work in the journalism profession.[1][11] She is also a member and vice president of Asociación Mundial de Mujeres Periodistas y Escritoras ("World Association of Women Journalists and Writers").[10] She is also member of the Asociación Mexicana de Prensa Turística (Ampretur) ("Mexican Association of Tourism Press"), founded in 1975 by Agustín Salmón Esparza.[10]

Awards

Over a career that spanned fifty years, Krauze was presented with several prestigious awards for her contributions to Mexican journalism.[6][10][12]

Books

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Para educar a los hijos no hay secreto, hay ejemplo". milenio.com. May 10, 2010. Retrieved 2013-06-21.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 Rivera, Enrique (February 22, 2012). "Hellen Krauze: mujer de palabra". enlacejudio.com. Retrieved 2013-06-21.
  3. ↑ Neville, Harry (April 15, 1973). "Around the US with 5 foreign journalists". Boston Globe. p. B17. Retrieved 11 May 2011. The visiting writers were a varied lot some of them not strictly speaking music critics Helen Krauze, a feature writer of Novidades Mexico City was a ...
  4. ↑ Luz Haw, Dora. "Edita Helen Krauze pláticas: Presenta libro con 89 entrevistas a personajes del arte y la literatura". Reforma date=February 18, 2012.
  5. 1 2 "Helen Krauze, ganadora del Premio de Periodismo de la AMPG". El Sol de México. December 19, 2012. Retrieved 2013-06-21.
  6. 1 2 3 "Helen Krauze, Escritora y periodista". diariojudio.com. May 30, 2011. Retrieved 2013-06-21.
  7. 1 2 Amon, Rhoda (February 16, 1997). "Seniors can find warmth in Mexico". Florida Times-Union.
  8. 1 2 "Comparte Helen Krauze con los lectores sus Pláticas en el tiempo". Jus. September 13, 2011. Retrieved 2013-06-21.
  9. ↑ "La entrevista es meter cordón para sacar listón, dice Helen Krauze". cronica.com.mx. August 21, 2011. Retrieved 2013-06-21.
  10. 1 2 3 4 "Helen Krauze presentó su libro Pláticas en el tiempo". protocolo.com.mx. September 8, 2011. Retrieved 2013-06-21.
  11. ↑ Pino Desandoval, Hylda (1977). Veinte Mujeres y un Hombre 2. Editores Asociados. pp. 104, 112, 152.
  12. ↑ "Festeja 50 años de actividad periodística Helen Krauze" (Bulletin No. 037). Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artres. January 16, 2013. Retrieved 2013-06-21.
  13. ↑ "Laurean a Helen Krauze". El Sol de México. February 12, 2009. Retrieved 2013-06-21.
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