About Ulalume González de León

Poet, essayist, writer and translator, Ulalume González de León (1928–2009) believed that “Everything has already been said,” and thus each literary creation is a rewriting, reshuffling, and reconstructing of one great work. For this reason, she chose the title Plagios (Plagiarisms) for her book of collected poems. Her poetry and other writing earned her many awards, including the Xavier Villaurrutia Prize, the Flower of Laura Poetry Prize, and the Alfonso X Prize. Nobel Laureate Octavio Paz called her “the best Mexicana poet since Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz.”