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{{Infobox writer<br />
| image = Juan García Ponce, 1981.jpg<br />
| caption = García Ponce in 1981<br />
| birth_date = {{birth date|1932|9|22|df=y}}<br />
| birth_place = [[Mérida, Yucatán]], Mexico<br />
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2003|12|27|1932|9|22|df=yes}}<br />
| death_place = [[Mexico City]], Mexico<br />
| occupation = {{Flatlist|<br />
* Novelist<br />
* short-story writer<br />
* essayist<br />
* translator<br />
}}<br />
| period = 1954–2012<br />
| movement = [[Generación de la Ruptura]]<br />
| notable_works = <br />
}}<br />
'''Juan García Ponce''' (22 September 1932 – 27 December 2003) was a [[Mexico|Mexican novelist]], short-story writer, essayist, translator and critic of [[Mexican art]].<br />
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==Career==<br />
García Ponce was born in [[Mérida, Yucatán]], Mexico. His most notable works include ''La aparición de lo invisible'' (1968) and ''Las huellas de la voz'' (1982). In his novels ''Figura de paja'' (1964), ''La casa en la playa'' (1966), ''La presencia lejana'' (1968), ''La cabaña'' (1969), ''La invitación'' (1972), ''El nombre olvidado'' (1970), ''El libro'' (1978), ''Crónica de la intervención'' (1982), ''Inmaculada o los placeres de la Inocencia'' (1989) he intertwines the erotic with philosophic rigor and the aesthetic, illuminating the secret, demonic side of reality, accepting all of its risks.<ref>{{cite web|title=La mirada en el constructo erótico de Juan García Ponce|url=https://www.elretruecano.com/la-mirada-en-el-constructo-erotico-de-juan-garcia-ponce/|website= Retruécano |date=23 September 2020|access-date=14 July 2023|language=es}}</ref><br />
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He formed an important part of the Generación de Medio Siglo, or the [[Generación de la Ruptura]], along with writers such as [[Salvador Elizondo]], [[Inés Arredondo]], [[Sergio Pitol]] and [[Elena Poniatowska]], and artists and painters such as [[Manuel Felguerez]], [[Vicente Rojo Almazán]], [[José Luis Cuevas]], [[Roger von Gunten]], and [[Fernando García Ponce]]. He is credited for introducing authors such as [[Robert Musil]], [[Thomas Mann]], [[Jorge Luis Borges]], [[Pierre Klossowski]] and [[Georges Bataille]] to the Mexican public.<ref>{{cite web|title=Juan García Ponce|url=http://laruptura.org/integrantes/juan-garcia-ponce|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200103073950/http://laruptura.org/integrantes/juan-garcia-ponce|url-status=usurped|archive-date=January 3, 2020|website=La Ruptura|access-date=14 July 2023|language=es}}</ref><br />
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He received various prestigious prizes including the Premio Teatral Ciudad de México (1956), the [[Xavier Villaurrutia Award]] (1972) for his novel ''Encuentros'', the Elías Sourasky Prize (1974), the Premio [[Editorial Anagrama|Anagrama]] de Ensayo (1981), the Premio de la Crítica (1985), the [[National Prize for Arts and Sciences]] in Linguistics and Literature (1989), the [[FIL Literary Award]] in Romance Languages (then known as the Juan Rulfo Prize for Latin American and Caribbean Literature) (2001) and the Medalla Eligio Ancona.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.garciaponce.com/premios/rulfo/index.html |title=Juan García Ponce - Premio Rulfo|accessdate=1 June 2015|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20111113114502/http://www.garciaponce.com/premios/rulfo/index.html|archivedate=13 November 2011|language=es}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Premio Nacional de Ciencias y Artes|url=http://www.ecultura.gob.mx/artistas_y_grupos_artisticos/pnca/indiceac/pnca_anoycampo.pdf|publisher=Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110722225045/http://www.ecultura.gob.mx/artistas_y_grupos_artisticos/pnca/indiceac/pnca_anoycampo.pdf|archive-date=22 July 2011|access-date=14 July 2023|language=es}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Juan García Ponce – Medalla "Eligio Ancona"|url=http://www.garciaponce.com/premios/mea.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150626095341/http://www.garciaponce.com/premios/mea.htm|archive-date=26 June 2015|access-date=14 July 2023|language=es}}</ref><br />
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In 2007 the journal ''[[Nexos]]'' asked various writers and literary critics to select the greatest Mexican novels of the past 30 years. Juan García Ponce's novel ''Crónica de la intervención'' came in third place.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/notas/415549.html|title=Eligen las tres mejores novelas mexicanas de los últimos 30 años|website=El Universal|date=29 March 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150511064131/https://www.eluniversal.com.mx/notas/415549.html|archive-date=11 May 2015|access-date=14 July 2023|language=es}}</ref><br />
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García Ponce died on 27 December 2003 in his house in Mexico City, aged 71. The cause was [[respiratory failure]] derived from [[multiple sclerosis]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Muere el escritor Juan García Ponce|url=https://archivo.eluniversal.com.mx/notas/192978.html|website=El Universal|first=Miguel Ángel|last=Ceballos|date=28 December 2003|access-date=14 July 2023|language=es}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Muere García Ponce, uno de los grandes autores mexicanos del último medio siglo|url=https://www.abc.es/cultura/abci-muere-garcia-ponce-grandes-autores-mexicanos-ultimo-medio-siglo-200312280300-229147_noticia.html|website=ABC.es|date=28 December 2003|access-date=14 July 2023|language=es}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Falleció el escritor mexicano Juan García Ponce|url=https://letralia.com/104/noticia49.htm|website=Letralia|date=5 January 2004|access-date=14 July 2023|language=es}}</ref><br />
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==Awards==<br />
* [[Xavier Villaurrutia Prize]] (1972)<br />
* {{ill|Premio Anagrama|es}} de Ensayo (1981)<br />
* [[Juan Rulfo Prize]] (2001)<br />
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==References==<br />
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==Bibliography==<br />
* Rodríguez-Hernández, Raúl: ''Mexico's Ruins: Juan García Ponce and the Writing of Modernity.'' State University of New York Press, 2007. {{ISBN|978-0-7914-6943-9}}<br />
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