| Tedi López Mills | |
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| Born | 1959 Mexico City, Mexico |
| Alma mater | National Autonomous University of Mexico Sorbonne University |
| Genre | Poetry |
Tedi López Mills is a Mexican poet born in 1959 in Mexico City. She began her undergraduate studies in philosophy at the National Autonomous University of Mexico for three years before completing her degree at the Sorbonne University in Paris. She later completed postgraduate studies at the Sorbonne in Latin American literature. She is among the contemporary Mexican writers that propose a turn toward the aesthetic of Mexican colloquial language.
Recognition
- Efraín Huerta National Prize for Poetry, 1994.
- José Fuentes Mares National Prize for Literature, 2006.
- Xavier Villaurrutia Award, 2009.
- Antonin Artaud Narrative Prize, 2013.
- She received the first poetry grant from the now-defunct Octavio Paz Foundation in 1998, a grant from Jóvenes Creadores in 1994, and currently belongs to the Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte.
Works
- Cinco estaciones , 1989.
- Un lugar ajeno , 1993.
- Segunda persona , 1994 (Efraín Huerta National Prize for Poetry).
- Glosas , 1997.
- Horas , 2000.
- Luz por aire y agua , 2002.
- Un jardín, cinco noches (y otros poemas) , 2005.
- Contracorriente , 2006 (José Fuentes Mares National Prize for Literature).
- Parafrasear , 2008.
- Muerte en la rúa Augusta , 2009 (Xavier Villaurrutia Award).
- Amigo del perro cojo , 2014.
- She has also written a book on French poet Stéphane Mallarmé: La noche en blanco de Mallarmé, y una colección de ensayos narrativos: Libro de las explicaciones (Antonin Artaud Narrative Prize).
- La invención de un diario (Almadía).
In May 2014, her book Muerte en la rúa Augusta was published in English translation (titled Death on Rua Augusta) by the English publisher Eyewear Publishing.