Antonio Alatorre
| Antonio Alatorre | |
|---|---|
| Born | Antonio Alatorre Chávez July 25, 1922 Autlán, Jalisco, Mexico |
| Died | October 21, 2010 (aged 88) Mexico City, Mexico |
| Occupation | Novelist, poet, playwright, soldier |
| Language | Spanish |
| Nationality | Mexican |
| Alma mater | Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México |
| Notable works | Los 1001 años de la lengua española |
Antonio Alatorre Chávez (July 25, 1922 – October 21, 2010) was a Mexican writer, philologist and translator, famous due to his influential academic essays about Spanish literature, and because of his book Los 1001 años de la lengua española (The 1001 Years of the Spanish Language)
Antonio Alatorre was born in Autlán de la Grana, Jalisco. He studied Latin, Greek, French and English during his youth. He would study Law at the beginning, but switched instead to Literature at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and Philology at El Colegio de México (Colmex). He studied in France and Spain with professors such as Raymond Lebergue and Marcel Bataillon.
He was the director of El Colegio de México from 1953 to 1972, when he edited and directed the Nueva Revista de Filología Hispánica. He taught since 1943 and participated at conferences and courses in several countries. He won Mexico's National Price of Linguistics and Literature in 1998. He was appointed as a member of El Colegio Nacional on September 13, 2001 and as an honorary member of Academia Mexicana de la Lengua in September 2001. He died in Mexico City.
In addition to the Nueva Revista de Filología Hispánica (NRFH), Alatorre edited the literary journal Pan (Guadalajara, 1945), Historia Mexicana (El Colegio de México, 1952–1959), was the co-director of the Revista Mexicana de Literatura (1958–1960) and participated in Diálogos and Nexos.
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