Jaime Sabines

Jaime Sabines
Born (1926-03-25)March 25, 1926
Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas, Mexico
Died March 19, 1999(1999-03-19) (aged 72)
Mexico City, Mexico
Occupation Poet
Alma mater UNAM
Period 1951–1994
Notable awards Xavier Villaurrutia Award
1972 Lifetime achievements

Jaime Sabines Gutiérrez (March 25, 1926 – March 19, 1999) was a Mexican contemporary poet. Known as “the sniper of Literature” as he formed part of a group that transformed literature into reality, he wrote ten volumes of poetry, and his work has been translated into more than twelve languages. His writings chronicle the experience of everyday people in places such as the street, hospital, and playground. Sabines was also a politician.

Biography

Jaime Sabines Gutiérrez was born on March 25, 1926 in Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas. He is of Lebanese[1] and Spanish descent.

Before he devoted himself to the study of literature, he spent three years studying medicine before moving on to his real vocation:literature, studying at UNAM Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Sabines was an outstanding member of the Mexican Writers Centre from 1964 to 1965 and part of the jury for the Casa de las Americas prize. In addition to his literary activity, he participated in politics and became a federal deputy for the First District of Chiapas from 1976 to 1979, and for the Federal District in 1988. Sabines was awarded the Chiapas Award (1979), the Xavier Villaurrutia Award (1972), the Elias Sourasky Award (1982) and the National Literature Award (1983).

A collection of his work, Nuevo recuento de poemas, was issued by the publisher Joaquín Mortiz in 1977, and the Secretariat of Public Education in 1986. In 1994 he received from the Senate of Mexico the Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor; in 1995, his selected poems, Pieces of Shadow (trans. W.S. Merwin), was brought out in a bilingual edition by Papeles Privados; and in 2004 Exile Editions (Toronto, Canada) published a bilingual volume of two early Sabines books, Adam and Eve & Weekly Diary and Poems in Prose (trans. Colin Carberry.) Octavio Paz considered him “one of the greatest contemporary poets of our [Spanish] language.”

Sabines died on March 19, 1999.

Published poetry

Awards

See also

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References

  1. ↑ El libanés Por: SERGIO SARMIENTO
  2. ↑ Visited on December 7, 2009; edited by El Poder de la Palabra
  3. ↑ Visited on December 1, 2009, and edited by Mexico's Secretariat of Public Education
Preceded by
Andrés Henestrosa Morales		 Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor
1994 		Succeeded by
Miguel León Portilla
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