Elena Poniatowska

Elena Poniatowska, a Mexican journalist, assembled La noche de Tlatelolco in 1971 from the testimony of students, parents, soldiers and bystanders about the 1968 massacre in Mexico City, which the government had played down. She set voices side by side without a narrator, letting contradictions stand. Her novel Hasta no verte Jesús mío drew on long interviews with a washerwoman, Josefina Bórquez. She won the Cervantes Prize in 2013.