Jaime Sabines
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Jaime Sabines Gutiérrez was a Mexican writer born on March 25, 1926 in Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas, and died on March 19, 1999 in Mexico City. Sabines was known as a “Sniper of Literature” because he was apart of a group that transformed literature into reality.
His writings were based on his presence in different places such as street, hospital, playground, and other places. Before he devoted himself to the study of literature, he spent three years studying medicine before moving on to his real vocation: Spanish land literature, studying at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), and obtaining a postgraduate degree. Sabines was an outstanding student at the Mexican Writers Centre from 1964 to 1965 and part of the jury for the Casa de las Américas Award. Besides his literary activity, he participated in politics and became a federal deputy for the state of Chiapas from 1976 to 1979 and for the Federal District in 1988. Jaime Sabines was rewarded with the Chiapas Award (1979), the Xavier Villaurrutia Award (1972), the Elias Sourasky Award (1982) and the National Literature Award (1983).
A collection of his work, Nuevo recuento de poemas, was issued by the publisher Joaquín Mortiz in 1977, and the Secretary of Education in 1986. In 1994 he received from the Senate of Mexico the Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor.
