12 Facts About Esther Seligson

Esther Seligson was a Mexican writer, poet, translator, and historian.

Esther Seligson was an academic, with a wide range of interests including art, cultural history, Jewish philosophy, mythology, religion and theater.

Esther Seligson won the Xavier Villaurrutia Prize and the Magda Donato Award for her literary contributions.

Esther Seligson was born 25 October 1941 in Mexico City, Mexico, to a family of Orthodox Jews.

Esther Seligson wanted to be a dancer, but her parents were strongly opposed, so she began studying chemistry at the National Autonomous University of Mexico before changing her academic direction.

Esther Seligson continued her studies at La Sorbonne and the University of Bordeaux, focusing on history, the Middle Ages, and philosophy.

Esther Seligson began publishing at the age of twenty-four in the and.

Esther Seligson published many other works, mostly not for commercial audiences.

Esther Seligson possessed a wide range of expertise and taught courses on art of the Middle Ages, comparative religion, cultural history, ideological history, Jewish philosophy, mythology, theater history, theatrical production and stagecraft.

Esther Seligson translated the work of Romanian philosopher Emile Michel Cioran; Egyptian Jewish poet, Edmond Jabes; Emmanuel Levinas; Virginia Woolf; and Marguerite Yourcenar, as well as others.

Esther Seligson was made a fellow of the Mexican Center of Writers in 1969, served as project coordinator of the Directorate General of Popular Culture from 1977 to 1979 and was on the editorial board of the magazine Escenica, published by UNAM.

Esther Seligson died 8 February 2010 in Mexico City, Mexico and was buried in the Panteon Israelita.