As per our current Database, Elena Poniatowska is still alive (as per Wikipedia, Last update: May 10, 2020).
Currently, Elena Poniatowska is 92 years, 7 months and 3 days old. Elena Poniatowska will celebrate 93rd birthday on a Monday 19th of May 2025. Below we countdown to Elena Poniatowska upcoming birthday.
| Popular As | Elena Poniatowska |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Age | 92 years old |
| Zodiac Sign | Taurus |
| Born | May 19, 1932 (France) |
| Birthday | May 19 |
| Town/City | France |
| Nationality | France |
Elena Poniatowska’s zodiac sign is Taurus. According to astrologers, Taurus is practical and well-grounded, the sign harvests the fruits of labor. They feel the need to always be surrounded by love and beauty, turned to the material world, hedonism, and physical pleasures. People born with their Sun in Taurus are sensual and tactile, considering touch and taste the most important of all senses. Stable and conservative, this is one of the most reliable signs of the zodiac, ready to endure and stick to their choices until they reach the point of personal satisfaction.
Elena Poniatowska was born in the Year of the Monkey. Those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Monkey thrive on having fun. They’re energetic, upbeat, and good at listening but lack self-control. They like being active and stimulated and enjoy pleasing self before pleasing others. They’re heart-breakers, not good at long-term relationships, morals are weak. Compatible with Rat or Dragon.
Notable for her human rights-themed works of journalism and fiction, she is particularly recognized for her nonfiction work La Noche de Tlatelolco (1971), which deals with the 1968 massacre of protesting students by the Mexican military and police forces.
When she was only eighteen years old, she began writing for Mexico City's Excelsior daily paper.
Her acclaimed, feminist-themed novels include Lilus Kikusy (1954); Hasta no Verte Jesus Mio (1969); and Tinisima (1992). In 2013, she became the fourth female recipient of the prestigious Miguel de Cervantes Prize in Literature.
The daughter of French-Polish nobleman Jean Joseph Evremond Sperry Poniatowski and French-born-Mexican mother Maria Dolores Paulette Amor Yturbe, she spent her youth in France and Mexico. She married the Mexican Astronomer and Astrophysicist Guillermo Haro and welcomed children named Emmanuel, Felipe, and Paula.
Her essay Las Siete Cabritas (2000) focuses on the Artist Frida Kahlo and six other influential, twentieth-century Mexican women.
