Enrique Krauze - Biography

Enrique Krauze Kleinbort (b. September 16, 1947 in Mexico City) is a Mexican historian, essayist and publisher. He is president of the publisher Editorial Clío and director of the cultural magazine Letras Libres.

Krauze received a bachelor's degree in industrial engineering from the UNAM and a doctorate in history from El Colegio de México. In 1978, he received a scholarship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. He has been professor and researcher for the Centro de Estudios Históricos at El Colegio de México, visiting professor at St. Antony's College (University of Oxford) (from December 1981 to 1983) and at The Wilson Center (from October to December 1987). From 1968 to 1970 he participated as a member of the student council as part of the Engineering school. For over twenty years he collaborated with Octavio Paz in Vuelta, where he was deputy editor (1977–1981) and as deputy director (1981–1986). In 1992 he created Editorial Clío, which he directs. In 1999 he created the cultural magazine Letras Libres, that is distributed in several Spanish-speaking countries. He is the brother of artist Perla Krauze (b. 1953).

Early career

He published his first article in the Méxican magazine Siempre, when he was 24 years old. A year later he was contributing at Plural magazine, and he entered the editorial staff of Vuelta in 1977.

Awards

In 1979 he received the Guggenheim Fellowship. In October 1993 he won the Premio Comillas de Biografía, (given annually by Tusquets publishing house for the best international biography) for his book Siglo de caudillos. He is a member of the Mexican Academy of History since 1990. In May 1992, he was awarded the Medalla al Mérito Histórico "Capitán Alonso de León", and on December 16, 2003 he was granted the Condecoración de la Gran Cruz de la Orden Civil de Alfonso X El Sabio. He entered the Colegio Nacional in México on April 27, 2005. In August 2008 he received the Orden Isabel la Católica given by the Spanish government.

Books

• ”Caudillos culturales en la Revolución Mexicana”, Siglo XXI, México, 1976.
• ”Historia de la Revolución Mexicana. La reconstrucción económica. 1924-1928”, El Colegio de México, México, 1977.
• ”Daniel Cosío Villegas. Una biografía intelectual”, Joaquín Mortiz, México, 1980.
• ”Caras de la historia”, Joaquín Mortiz, México, 1983.
• ”Por una democracia sin adjetivos”, Joaquín Mortiz -Planeta, México, 1986.
• ”Biografía del poder”, en ocho volúmenes: I. “Porfirio Díaz. Místico de la autoridad”; II. “Francisco I. Madero. Místico de la libertad”; III. “Emiliano Zapata. El amor a la tierra”; IV. “Francisco Villa. Entre el ángel y el fierro”; V. “Venustiano Carranza. Puente entre siglos”; VI. “Álvaro Obregón. El vértigo de la victoria”; VII. “Plutarco Elías Calles. Reformar desde el origen”; VIII. “Lázaro Cárdenas. General misionero”, Fondo de Cultura Económica, México, 1987.
• ”Personas e ideas”, Vuelta, México, 1989.
• ”Textos heréticos”, Grijalbo, México, 1992.
• ”Siglo de caudillos. Biografía política de México (1810-1910)”, Tusquets Editores, Barcelona, 1994.
• ”Tiempo contado”, Océano, México, 1996.
• ”Mexico: Biography of Power. A History of Modern Mexico, 1810-1996”, Harper Collins Publishers, Nueva York, 1997.
• ”La presidencia imperial”, Tusquets Editores, México, 1997.
• Mexico: Biography of Power (Harper Perennial, 1998) ISBN 0060929170
• ”La Historia cuenta”, Tusquets Editores, México, 1998.
• ”Mexicanos eminentes”, Tusquets Editores, México, 1999.
• ”Tarea política”, Tusquets Editores, 2000.
• ”Travesía liberal”, Tusquets Editores, México, 2003.
• ”La presencia del pasado”, Tusquets Editores, México, 2005.
• "Para salir de Babel", Tusquets Editores, México, 2006.
• ”Retratos personales”, Tusquets Editores, 2007, 288 págs.
• "El poder y el delirio", Tusquets Editores, 2008, México

Other work

He has also produced Mexico Siglo XX and Mexico Nuevo Siglo, two historical TV series about Mexico, on Televisa in Mexico, and for PBS in the United States.

External links

• Biography at the Colegio Nacional ("National College").
• Biography at the Mexican Academy of History.
• Slate: He-Who-Speaks
• Letras Libres