Elena Poniatowska
Hélène Elizabeth Louise Amélie Paula Dolores Poniatowska Amor (born May 19, 1932), known professionally as Elena Poniatowska is a French-born Mexican journalist and author, specializing in works on social and political issues focused on those considered to be disenfranchised especially women and the poor. She was born in Paris to upper-class parents, including her mother whose family fled Mexico during the Mexican Revolution. She left France for Mexico when she was ten to escape the Second World War. When she was eighteen and without a university education, she began writing for the newspaper Excélsior, doing interviews and society columns. Despite the lack of opportunity for women from the 1950s to the 1970s, she wrote about social and political issues in newspapers, books in both fiction and nonfiction form. Her best known work is La noche de Tlatelolco (The night of Tlatelolco, the English translation was entitled "Massacre in Mexico") about the repression of the 1968 student protests in Mexico City. Due to her leftwing views, she has been nicknamed "the Red Princess". She is considered to be "Mexico's grande dame of letters" and is still an active writer.
Acting
Movie
Xico's Journey
as Cuca (voice)
2020
Movie
El Santos vs la Tetona Mendoza
as Self / Additional Voices (voice)
2012
Movie
Made in Mexico
as Self
2012
Movie
The Busty Doll
2017
Movie
Asaltar los cielos
1996
Movie
Pedro
as Self
2022
TV
Ven Acá... con Eugenia León y Pavel Granados
as Self
2023
Movie
Between Cuba and Mexico, Everything is Bonito & Sabroso
2016
Movie
Ana
as Escritora (México)
2020
Movie
The Storm That Swept Mexico
as Self - Novelist/Journalist (as Elena Poniatowska Amor)
2011
Movie
Tina Modotti: Dogma and Passion
as Herself
2013
Movie
Alaide Foppa Falla, The Unfortunate One
2014
Movie
Leonora Carrington - The Surrealist Game
as Self
2012
Movie
Chaos and Order: Manuel Felguérez and His Abstract Work
2016
Movie
One Hundred Years with Juan Rulfo
as Self
2017
Movie
José Emilio Pacheco: me llamo Nadie
as Self
2009
Movie
Memoria de Los Olvidados
as Self
2025
TV
Booklovers
as Self
2023
