Gonzalo Celorio

Celorio was born in Mexico City in 1948. His family life was narrated in the novels Tres lindas cubanas, published in 2006, where he talks about his mother's family; El metal y la escoria, published in 2014, about his father's family and Los apóstatas, published in 2020, about two of his twelve brothers. Celorio studied literature and philology at the School of Philosophy and Letters of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). He was a student of historian Edmundo O'Gorman. Between 2000 and 2002 he was the director of the Fondo de Cultura Económica. a coming-of-age story, Y retiemble en sus centros la Tierra and the Una familia ejemplar trilogy about his family ==Awards, fellowships and recognition==

In 1986, he received the Cultural Journalism Award, granted by the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura (INBA), for Los subrayados son míos; in 1997, he was awarded the Prix des deux océans, given by the Biarritz Festival, for his work El viaje sedentario, translated into French; and in 1999, the National IMPAC/CONARTE/ITESM Novel Award for the novel Y retiemble en sus centros la tierra. He was elected as a member of the Academia Mexicana de la Lengua (Mexican Academy of Language) in 1995. In February 2019 he became director of the institution. In 2011, he was awarded the National Prize for Arts and Sciences in the Linguistics and literature, the highest distincion the Mexican government gives to artists. He is also a member of the Academia Cubana de la Lengua. In 2015, he was awarded the for his novel El metal y la escoria. In 2023, he received the Xavier Villaurrutia Award for his memoirs Mentideros de la memoria. Celorio received Spain's Cervantes Prize in 2025 for his "exceptional literary work and intellectual endeavours, through which he has made a profound and sustained contribution to the enrichment of the Spanish language and culture". == Works ==

• El viaje sedentario Novels • Amor propio, , Mexico City, 1991. • Y retiemble en sus centros la tierra, Tusquets Editores, Mexico City, 1999. • Tres lindas cubanas, Tusquets Editores, Mexico City, 2006. • El metal y la escoria, Tusquets Editores, Mexico City, 2014. • Los apóstatas, Tusquets Editores, Mexico City, 2020. Essay • La época sordina, , Mexico City, 1990. • Ensayo de contraconquista, Tusquets Editores, Mexico City, 2001. • Cánones subversivos. Ensayos de literatura hispanoamericana, Tusquets Editores, Mexico City, 2009. Memoirs • Mentideros de la memoria, Tusquets Editores, Mexico City, 2022. ==References==