Bernardo Ortiz de Montellano

Bernardo Ortiz de Montellano
Born (1899-01-03)January 3, 1899
Mexico City
Died April 13, 1949(1949-04-13) (aged 50)
Mexico City
Occupation writer, literary critic, editor, teacher
Nationality Mexican
Genre poetry, essays, biographies
Notable works Sueño y poesía, 1952

Bernardo Ortiz de Montellano (b. Mexico City, January 3, 1899 – Mexico City, April 13, 1949[1]) was a modern Mexican poet, literary critic, editor, and teacher.[2]

Ortiz de Montellano visited the Escuela Nacional Preparatoria. He taught at the Escuela de Verano, a school of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), and served as bookrevisor of the Secretaría de Educación Pública (SEP).[3]

He was member of the literary group Nuevo Ateneo de la Juventud, which was founded in 1918 by Ortiz de Montellano, Jaime Torres Bodet, José Gorostiza, and others. The members of the group wrote for magazines and journals. In 1928 he was co-founder of the magazine "Contemporáneos" and was director of it from June 1928 through December 1931. He was also an occasional editor of the literary magazine "Letras de México", published from 1937 to 1947,[2] chief-editor of "El Trovador", and was co-founder of the Cuadernos Americanos group.[3]

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Compiled and posthumously edited:

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References

  1. ↑ Bernardo Ortiz de Montellano in Octavio Paz: Poesía en movimiento: México 1915-1966 (Spanish), 2006, p. 385
  2. 1 2 Biography of Bernardo Ortiz de Montellano, Princeton University Library
  3. 1 2 Bernardo Ortiz de Montellano (Spanish), Biografías y Vidas.
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