Vicente Quirarte, a Fundamental Writer, Died
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The writer Vicente Quirarte Castañeda died at 72 in Mexico City; UNAM, the Mexican Academy of Language and El Colegio Nacional lamented his death.
Mexican writer, member of the National College since 2016, won the Xavier Vilaurrutia Prize in 2016 for ‘The Angel Is Vampire’
The news was released this afternoon by El Colegio Nacional (Colnal), of which he was a member. "His death leaves an irreplaceable place, but we are sure that his work and his memory will be among us," said Leonardo López Luján, president in turn of the organization. In addition to being a poet, he was playwright, chronicler, researcher and university official. "Vicente Quirarte distinguished herself throughout his fruitful professional career n…
Vicente Quirarte, fundamental voice of the poes a mexicana contempor nea, died this Tuesday at 72 aos, inform El Colegio Nacional.
The writer was 72 years old
Porfirio Díaz melted some old cannons to transform them into railroad tracks. He proudly told Jesús E. Valenzuela. The poet replied: "But don't forget, Mr. President, that they can become cannons again." In his book "Love of the Big City" Vicente Quirarte rescued this dialogue and added that Valenzuela's metaphor had been exact: "the railroad tracks Porfirio Díaz traced to give way to modernity, would lead to the armies of the Revolution." With …
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