Héctor Carreto
Héctor Carreto was born in Mexico City in 1953 and has a degree in Hispanic Language and Literatures (UNAM). He also studied cinema at the Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica (CCC).
He has published the following poetry titles: ¿Volver a Ítaca? (1979), Naturaleza muerta (1980), La espada de san Jorge (1982), Habitante de los parques públicos (1992), Incubus (1993), Antología desordenada (1996), Coliseo (2002), El poeta regañado por la musa, antología personal (2006), Poesía portátil 1979-2006 (2009), Clase turista (2012), Testamento de Clark Kent (2015), Picnic (2017) and Todo tiempo pasado fue mejor (2019).
He has been awarded the following national prizes: “Efraín Huerta” (1979), “Raúl Garduño” (1981), “Carlos Pellicer for published work” (1983), and the “2002 Aguascalientes National Poetry Award”. He also received the “10th Luis Cernuda Poetry Award 1990,” in Seville, Spain.
His poems have been translated into English, French, Italian, Portuguese, and Hungarian. In addition, he has translated and disseminated the work of Portuguese-language authors, and is the author of various thematic anthologies of Mexican and foreign writers.
Member of the National System of Art Creators in various periods, he is a professor-researcher at the Academy of Literary Creation of the Autonomous University of Mexico City (UACM) and in the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the UNAM. He also writes mini-fiction.
