Jorge F. Hernández (Mexico City, 1962)

Jorge F. Hernández
(Mexico City, 1962)
PhD candidate in History from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, has been a teaching professor at UNAM, ITAM, Universidad
Anáhuac University and Centro Cultural Helénico, in Mexico City. He has published several essays and articles on Mexican history and
the book “La soledad del silencio. Microhistoria del Santuario de Atotonilco” (fondo de Cultura Económica, 1991), with which he won the
1987 BANAMEX National Regional History Prize “Atanasio G. Saravia” with an Honorable Mention.
As a story writer, he has published “En las nubes” (El Equilibrista/ CNCA 1997) and in 2000, he won the National Short Story Prize
"Efren Hernandez" with the story "Noche de ronda", included in his second book of short stories “Escenarios del Sueño” (CNCA , 2005).
Other storybooks are “SeisCuentosSeis and one gift” (Ficticia/ UANL) and “El álgebra del misterio” (to be printed under the seal of Fondo
de Cultura Económica); in 2010, the Ministry of Culture of the State of Colima published “Un montón de piedras”, his first short story
anthology, to be released in an expanded edition for Spain, under the seal Endimyon de la Librería Fuentetaja Library of Madrid.
As an essayist, he has released “Requiem taurino” (Aldus, 1998), “Territorios del tiempo. Anthology of interviews with Carlos Fuentes”
(Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1999; translation to French in Gallimard, 2005), “Las manchas del arte y el misterio de la insinuación”
(Aldus, 2002), and “Espejo de historias y otros reflejos” (Aldus, 2000) and “Signos de admiración” (UNAM / DGE-Equilibrista, 2006).
Currently, he is preparing a new volume of literary essays under the title “Wakefields. Elogio de la desesperación”.
He has been a collaborator for magazines as “Vuelta”, of Octavio Paz, Artes de México, FMR, Matador, and newspapers like
Novedades, Reforma and El País, in Spain. He was a collaborator at Cambio magazine, of Gabriel García Márquez, with the column
“Enormes minucias” and today, he publishes a weekly column, “Agua de azar” in MILENIO Diario. Soon, an anthology of a decade of
this weekly column will be published with a foreword by Antonio Muñoz Molina.
His novel “La Emperatriz del Lavapiés” (Alfaguara, 1999) was a finalist for the First International Novel Prize Alfaguara 1997, and has
been reedited in paperback by Ediciones Punto de Lectura in Spain. His second novel, “Réquiem para un angel” (Alfaguara, 2009) has
also been successful and circulated in electronic format.
His recent anthology “Sol, piedra y sombras. Veinte cuentistas mexicanos en la primera mitad del siglo XX” (Fondo de Cultura
Económica, 2008), translated as “Sun, Stone and Shadows. 20 Great Mexican Short Stories” (Fondo de Cultura Económica/Fundación
para las Letras Mexicanas, 2008), has been successfully selected for the reading program of the government of the United States as
“The Big Read” of the National Endowment of Arts
He conducts the section “Golpe de dados”, with Laura Barrera on the news program of Channel 22 in Mexico. Currently, he also
conducts, with Phillipe Ollé-Laprune y Fabrizio Mejía-Madrid, the program “Acentos” in radio station Opus 94.5 FM in Mexico. He is a
member of the National Art Creators System of the National Fund for Culture and the Arts.
© Jorge F. Hernández 2014