Many of you don’t know – but I like to write. I go to a writer’s workshop once a week and secretely hope that one day, I can be a published author. Big dreams for geeky me.
Elena Garro was a playwright, novelist, choreographer. journalist, screenwriter, poet, and political activist. Oh, and she was once married to that poet and Nobel Laureate dude, Octavio Paz.
Basically, she was the Frida Kahlo of Latin American literature.
My favorite story by Elena Garro is “La Culpa es de Los Tlaxcaltecas” – below you will find an excerpt from the story. The main character’s name is Laura and she is crazy but brilliant – coincidence? I think not.
:: LG
Laura Gómez/Latina Geek
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This is great…and so true. The words of my parents and grandparents might as well have been chunks of obsidian, hard and sharp at times but also the basis for tools I would use all my life.
Can’t wait to read one of her plays. Where did you find her? She’s great!
I will have to check it out. Have you checked out Brasilian writers Fernando Pessoa and Pedra Bonita. They are great.
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mi Libro favorito: Uno soñaba que era rey
de Enrique Serna
-classico.