Guillermo Sheridan
| Guillermo Sheridan | |
|---|---|
| Born | Guillermo Humberto Sheridan Prieto 27 August 1950 Mexico City |
| Language | Spanish |
| Nationality | Mexican |
| Alma mater |
National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) University of East Anglia |
| Subject | Modern Mexican poetry |
| Notable awards | Xavier Villaurrutia Award (1989), Fernando Benítez for Cultural Journalism (2011). |
Guillermo Humberto Sheridan Prieto (born 27 August 1950 in Mexico City) is a Mexican literary critic, scholar and public commentator.
Sheridan was a Chevening Scholar at the University of East Anglia in1986. He was awarded a doctorate in Mexican literature by the National Autonomous University of Mexico. He is a member of Mexico's Sistema Nacional de Investigadores, a governmental agency established in Mexico in 1984, to promote both the quantity and quality of research.
As a scholar, most of his writing deals with the history of Mexican modern poetry in books like Los Contemporáneos ayer (1985), Un corazón adicto (1990, a biography of Ramón López Velarde), México en 1932 (1999, a study of Mexican nationalism), Poeta con Paisaje (2004, a biography of Nobel laureate poet Octavio Paz), Tres ensayos sobre Gilberto Owen (2008, essays about a Mexican poet), Paralelos y meridianos (2010, literary essays), Señales debidas (2011, essays about Mexican writers and poets of the 20th century) and Malas palabras. Jorge Cuesta y la revista Examen (2011, a history of modern literary censorship in Mexico). His latest book, Habitación con retratos (2015) is the second volume of a thrilogy about Octavio Paz's life and work. Sheridan has also edited works by poets like José Juan Tablada, Ramón López Velarde and José Gorostiza.
Sheridan has written extensively about politics, education and everyday life in some of Mexico’s most prestigious newspapers, such as Reforma and La Jornada. He was a monthly collaborator to Octavio Paz’s review Vuelta, and continues to publish a monthly article in Enrique Krauze’s Letras Libres and a weekly commentary in El Universal, a major daily newspaper. Several volumes of his chronicles have been published over the years: Frontera norte (1988), Cartas de Copilco y otras postales (1993), Lugar a dudas (1999), El encarguito (2007) and Viaje al centro de mi tierra (2011). His writings about the problems of higher education in Mexico were collected in Allá en el campus grande (2001). In 1996 he published an infamous satyrical novel about Mexican politics, El dedo de oro (Alfaguara, 1996). He has a blog called "El Minutario", hosted by Letras Libres.
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