# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/elena-garro
# Generated: 2026-09-02T06:57:12.455Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/elena-garro"
name: "Elena Garro"
slug: "elena-garro"
description: "Elena Garro was a Mexican author, playwright, screenwriter, journalist, short story writer, and novelist. She has been described as one of the pioneers and an early leading figure of the Magical Realism movement, though she rejected this affiliation. Alongside the works of Juan Rulfo, her first three works: Un hogar sólido (1958), Los Recuerdos del Porvenir (1963), and La Semana de Colores (1964), are considered to be among the earliest examples of Magical Realism in Latin American literature. Garro's writing, despite being mostly theatre and fictional prose, borrowed heavily from poetry and its literary elements. Author and biographer Patricia Rosas Lopategui has described Garro's style as \"an attempt to rescue the use of everyday language in the form of poetry\". Her style has also been compared to that of French writers like Georges Schéhadé, Jean Genet, as well as Romanian-French playwright Eugène Ionesco, due to the surreal nature of her stories. A close friend of Albert Camus, her works were also heavily influenced by his style and philosophy. She was the recipient of the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize in 1996."
tagline: "Mexican writer (1916–1998)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Elena_Garro.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Mexico"
  isoCode: "MX"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1916-12-11"
deathDate: "1998-08-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           53.21
  momentum:             4.315605928509156
  historical:           14.67759066666667
  currentAttention:     23.97558849171753
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0308506/"
    handle:    "nm0308506"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
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    title: "إيلينا جارو"
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    title: "Elena Garro"
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    title: "Elena Garro"
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    title: "Elena Garro"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump