Xavier Villaurrutia

Xavier Villaurrutia was born in Mexico City in 1903. He studied at the National Preparatory School and then at the law school, which he left for letters. In 1927 he founded the journal Ulises with Salvador Novo, then from 1928 to 1931 contributed to Contemporáneos, which gave its name to their group. A scholarship student at Yale in 1935, he studied theatre there, then wrote plays, screenplays and film criticism, and translated Gide, Blake and Chekhov. He died in Mexico City in December 1950, at the age of forty-seven.

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