Víctor M. Navarro
Víctor Manuel Navarro Bárcenas was born in Mexico City (1954). He studied journalism and communication, literature and cinema at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and trained as a writer and poet in the workshops of Evodio Escalante, Alejandro Aura, Raúl Renán and David Huerta. He was a member of the Synthetic Poetry Workshop founded in 1977.
He worked in Cultural Diffusion of Casa del Lago and in Radio and TV UNAM. He was Press Officer of the National Pedagogical University (UPN).
He was also Deputy Director of Radio and Media in the Federal District government, Deputy Director of Electronic Media in the Álvaro Obregón Delegation, and Coordinator of literary workshops and conferences at the Miguel Hidalgo Delegation.
He was editor of the magazine Universal Geography, writer and reporter for the newspaper Ovaciones and collaborator in the newspapers Novedades, El Nacional, La Jornada and Milenio. He also worked as Deputy Director at the Casa del Faldón and collaborated in Diario de Querétaro, Noticias, El Nuevo Amanecer and Revista Querétaro.
He was part of the founding team of Radio Querétaro, and worked as a commentator on television in that state. For six years he coordinated the cycle “Letters, Words in Freedom” for the Querétaro Ministry of Culture, in which Fernando del Paso, Alí Chumacero, Carlos Monsiváis, Francisco Cervantes, Antonio Vilanova and Ignacio Trejo, among many other writers, participated.
He has published reviews, essays and poems in UNAM Magazine, Nexos, Semanario de Bellas Artes, Letra Franca, Siempre! and several other Mexican magazines. He has published seven books of poems, including: Cartagena, Tributes and Poems, Tacubaya Revisited and Aída. His work has been included in various poetry anthologies and in an anthology of urban chronicles.
