Agustín Yáñez

Agustín Yáñez studied at University of Guadalajara and National Autonomous University of Mexico. The recorded working language is Spanish. Positions recorded include Governor of Jalisco and Secretariat of Public Education. Works named in the authority record are Al filo del agua. Work by Agustín Yáñez is recorded in the collections of Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes. Distinctions recorded are National Prize for Arts and Sciences and Grand Officer of the Order of the Sun of Peru.

• Name — Agustín Yáñez • Office — Governor of Jalisco • Term Start — 1 March 1953 • Term End — 28 February 1959 • Predecessor — José Jesús González Gallo • Successor — Juan Gil Preciado • Office2 — Secretary of Public Education • Term Start2 — 1 December 1964 • Term End2 — 30 November 1970 • President2 — Gustavo Díaz Ordaz • Predecessor2 — Jaime Torres Bodet • Successor2 — Víctor Bravo Ahuja • Born — 4 May 1904 • Birthplace — Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico • Died — 17 January 1980 • Place of death — Mexico City, D.F., Mexico • Resting Place — Panteón de Dolores • Education — University of Guadalajara National Autonomous University of Mexico • Party — Institutional Revolutionary Party Agustín Yáñez Delgadillo (May 4, 1904 in Guadalajara, Jalisco – January 17, 1980 in Mexico City) was a Mexican writer and politician who served as Governor of Jalisco and Secretary of Public Education during Gustavo Díaz Ordaz's presidency. He is the author of numerous books and the recipient, in 1952 as member of the Academia Mexicana de la Lengua, in 1973, of the Premio Nacional de las Letras. Al filo del agua (On the Edge of the Storm) is considered his most important work, according to the Encyclopedia of Latin American and Caribbean literature, 1900-2003 By Daniel Balderston, Mike Gonzalez, page 616.

• Fray Barlolomé de las Casas, el conquistador conquistado (1942) • El contenido social de la literatura iberoamericana (1943) • Alfonso Gutiérrez Hermosillo y algunos amigos (1945) • El clima espiritual de Jalisco (1945) • Fichas mexicanas (1945) • Yahualica (1946) • Discursos por Jalisco (1958) • La formación política (1962) • Moralistas franceses (1962) • Proyección universal de México (1963) • Días de Bali (1964) • Conciencia de la revolución (1964) • Dante, concepción integral del hombre y de la historia (1965) • Discursos al servicio de la educación pública (1964,1965,1966)

• Por tierras de Nueva Galicia (1928) • Baralipton (1931) • Espejismo de Juchitán (1940) • Genio y figuras de Guadalajara (1941) • Flor de juegos antiguos (1942) • Esta es mala suerte (1945) • Melibea, Isolda y Alda en tierras cálidas (1946) • Los sentidos del aire, Episodios de Navidad (1948) • Tres cuentos (1964)

• Archipiélago de mujeres (1943) • Pasión y convalecencia (1943) • Al filo del agua (1947) • La creación (1959) • La tierra pfoparga (1960) • Ojerosa y pintada (1960) • Las tierras flacas (1962) • Perseverancia final (1967) • Las vueltas del tiempo (1973) • La ladera dorada (1978) • Santa Anna, espectro de una sociedad (1981 concluded AD)

Agustín Yáñez was a member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). He served as Governor of Jalisco from 1953 to 1959, undersecretary of the President of the Republic from 1962 to 1964 and Secretary of Public Education from 1964 to 1970. He headed the Mexican delegation to UNESCO's 11th general assembly in 1960.