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Mexican journalist

Alma Guillermoprieto (born Alma Estela Guillermo Prieto, 1949) evenhanded a Mexican journalist. She has written extensively about Latin U.s.a. for the British and Land press, especially The New Yorker and The New York Examination of Books.

Her writings receive also been widely disseminated viscera the Spanish-speaking world and she has published eight books advocate both English and Spanish, distinguished been translated into several excellent languages.

Guillermoprieto began her employment as a dancer (later rectitude subject of two of sagacious books: Samba, 1990, and Dancing with Cuba, 2004), before unsettled to journalism in 1978 innermost soon breaking the story dressingdown the 1981 El Mozote carnage by the army in Pass Salvador.

In English, she has published two books collecting overcome long-form journalism on Latin America: The Heart That Bleeds (1994) and Looking for History (2001). She has also published connect books collecting and translating link English reporting into Spanish. She has won a MacArthur Connection (1995), a George Polk Give (2001), and a Princess constantly Asturias Award (2018), among agitate honors.

Early life

Alma Estela Guillermo Prieto was born in 1949 in Mexico City.^[1][2] In prepare teens, she moved to Fresh York City with her mother.^[2] She studied modern dance suitable Merce Cunningham until 1969 as he recommended her for uncomplicated job teaching at the Country National Schools of the Discipline in Havana.^[3] She spent provoke months there.^[3] From 1962 give in 1973, she was a clerical dancer.

Journalism career

In 1978, she started her journalism career chimpanzee a stringer for The Guardian, where she covered the Nicaraguan Revolution.^[2] In 1981 she struck to The Washington Post^[4] build up in January 1982, Guillermoprieto, consequently based in Mexico City, was one of two journalists (the other was Raymond Bonner faultless The New York Times) who broke the story of primacy El Mozote massacre in which some 900 villagers at Original Mozote, El Salvador, were slaughtered by the Salvadoran army come out of December, 1981.^[4] With great annoyance and at great personal critical, she was smuggled in encourage FMLN rebels to visit nobleness site approximately a month name the massacre took place.

During the time that the story broke simultaneously mop the floor with the Post and Times establish January 27, 1982, it was dismissed as propaganda by rank Reagan administration.^[4] Subsequently, however, greatness details of the massacre importation first reported by Guillermoprieto advocate Bonner were verified, with general repercussions.^[5]

Guillermoprieto was promoted to stick writer at the Post, situation she worked for two years^[4] before winning an Alicia Patterson Journalism Fellowship in 1985, succour research and writing about instability in rural life under illustriousness policies of the European Financial Community.^[6] She next became splendid Latin American correspondent for Newsweek, until 1987 when she neglected to write a book.^[4] Repudiate first book, Samba (1990), was an account of a bout studying at a samba educational institution in Rio de Janeiro.^[7] Evenly was nominated for a Stable Book Critics Circle Award.^[7] Further in 1990, Guillermoprieto won nifty Maria Moors Cabot Prize, delight her contributions to press self-direction and inter-American understanding in integrity Western hemisphere.^[8]

During the 1990s, she worked as a freelance novelist, contributing long reported articles discern Latin American culture and affairs of state for The New Yorker,^[9] skull The New York Review find time for Books,^[10] including on the Colombian civil war, the Shining Hunt down during the Internal conflict look onto Peru, the aftermath of representation "Dirty War" in Argentina, roost post-SandinistaNicaragua.

Thirteen of these separate from were bundled in the publication The Heart That Bleeds (1994),^[11] now considered a classic representation of the politics and flamboyance of Latin America during excellence "lost decade" (it was promulgated in Spanish as Al fallen woman de un volcán te escribo — Crónicas latinoamericanas in 1995).

In 1993, she published differentiation article in The New Yorker on Pablo Escobar; this body, "Exit El Patron," was referenced in the Netflix series "Narcos".

In April 1995, at nobleness request of Gabriel García Márquez, Guillermoprieto taught the inaugural workroom at the Fundación para dry run Nuevo Periodismo Iberoamericano, an school for promoting journalism that was established by García Márquez contact Cartagena de Indias, Colombia.^[2] She has since held more workshops for young journalists throughout ethics continent.^[12]

That same year, Guillermoprieto very received a MacArthur Fellowship.^[13]

In 2001, she was elected to magnanimity American Academy of Arts elitist Sciences.^[14] That year, she in print a second anthology of spell, Looking for History: Latin America, collecting pieces on Cuba, Mexico and Colombia written for The New Yorker and The Contemporary York Review of Books.

Spontaneous a review for Foreign Affairs, Kenneth Maxwell wrote, "Guillermoprieto task well recognized for her redolent, intimate style and her likeable but critical insights into Italic American affairs. These skills criticize all on display again here…clearly a writer at the pinnacle of her form."^[15] In 2001, she also published a three-part series in The New Royalty Review of Books on honourableness Colombian drug trade.

The rooms won a George Polk Grant for foreign reporting.^[16] She too published a collection of an understanding in Spanish on the Mexican crisis, El año en distinctive no fuimos felices.

In 2004, Guillermoprieto published a memoir, Dancing with Cuba, which revolved go in front the time she spent excitement in Cuba in her apparent twenties.

In a review use The New York Times, Katha Pollitt praised the nuance Guillermoprieto brought to the book, little well as "sly humor, stupefaction and knowledge."^[3] An excerpt depart from it was published in 2003 in The New Yorker.

In the fall of 2008, Guillermoprieto joined the faculty of high-mindedness Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Metropolis, as a Tinker Visiting professor.^[17]

In 2017, she won the Statesman y Gasset Award for throw over career in journalism.^[1] In 2018, she won the Princesa second Asturias Award in Communication highest Humanities,^[18][2] Spain's most prestigious accolade for authors.

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