Elena Garro (December 11, 1916 – August 22, 1998) was a Mexican screenwriter, journalist, dramaturg, short story writer, and novelist. She has been described as the initiator of the Magical Realism movement, though she rejected this affiliation. She is a recipient of the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize.

Quotes

• There is nothing easier for my people than that quick show of grief.
  • Recollections of Things to Come, translated by Ruth L. C. Simms from Los recuerdos del porvenir (1963)

• Without his walks, the evenings were not the same, and my sidewalks were full of fruit husks, peanut shells, and ugly words.
  • Recollections of Things to Come

Quotes about

• (What Mexican books deserve greater attention in the United States?) I read Spanish too slowly to have any expertise here. But I do love and admire the works of Elena Garro, Elena Poniatowska and Rosario Castellanos, and, most recently, Fernanda Melchor and Cristina Rivera Garza.
  • Sandra Cisneros interview (2021)

• here’s a very short list of Latin women novelists I think should have been considered part of the Boom…Mexico: Elena Garro, Rosario Castellanos...
  • Luisa Valenzuela Interview (2022)

External links

• Goodreads page