Elsa Cross

Elsa Cross studied at National Autonomous University of Mexico. The recorded working language is Spanish. The field of work recorded is poetry, essay and translation. Employment is recorded with National Autonomous University of Mexico. Distinctions recorded are Xavier Villaurrutia Award, Premio Nacional de Poesía Aguascalientes, Alfonso Reyes International Prize and Premio Bellas Artes de Crónica Literaria Carlos Montemayor.

• Name — Elsa María Cross Anzaldúa • Born — March 6, 1946 • Occupation — Writer, poet • Language — Spanish • Education — Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México • Awards — * Xavier Villaurrutia Award 2007 • National Prize for Arts 2016 • Spouse — Alejandro Aura Juan Tovar • Children — 2

Cross was born in Mexico City on March 6, 1946. She has a doctorate in Philosophy and Letters from Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) and is currently a professor in that Faculty. Cross is a researcher in Indian philosophy, philosophy of religion, comparative mythology, Indian poetry, and Indian art. He studied Hindu philosophy in India, where he lived for two years, and in the United States. She has also published translations, philosophical essays and is known as an authority on Indian philosophy. According to Octavio Paz, Elsa Cross is one of the most personal voices in recent Latin-American poetry. Her work, already considerable, includes some of the most perfect poems of the last generation of Mexican writers. I say voice and not poetic writing since poetry, although written, must always be spoken. Two opposing notes reconcile harmoniously in Elsa Cross: the complexity of her thought and the clarity of her diction. Speaking of her poetry, Cross said it is the bond of the internal with the external. In one direction or another, for me poetry always bridges that inside with that of the outside, is the way of passing from one to the other of these spaces, but which unites them. The internal only can expressed when reflected in that outside -that necessary knot-, the outside can be a mirror or vice versa.

She was briefly married to the poet Alejandro Aura, and later in life to the playwright Juan Tovar. She has two children, one with each of her husbands.

Elsa Cross is recorded as having received Xavier Villaurrutia Award, Premio Nacional de Poesía Aguascalientes and Alfonso Reyes International Prize.