About

Known credits:
29
Birthday:
1933-06-09
Place of birth:
Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
Website:
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Vicente Leñero

Overview

Playwright and narrator. Studied Engineering at UNAM and Journalism at Escuela Carlos Septién García. Director of Revista de Revistas; deputy director of Proceso. His plays Pueblo rechazado, Compañero, La carpa, Alicia tal vez, Pelearán diez rounds, Hace ya tanto tiempo, Señora, La noche de Hernán Cortés, La mudanza and Nadie sabe nada, among others, have been premiered. Reporter and director of Excélsior, Proceso and Revista de Revistas. Fellow of the Instituto de Cultura Hispánica de Madrid, 1956; of the CME, 1961 and 1964; and of the Guggenheim Foundation, 1967. Member of the SNCA, as creator emeritus, since 1994. Member of the Mexican Academy of Language since 2010. First and second place in the National University Short Story Contest 1958. Winner of the Biblioteca Breve Award 1963 for Los albañiles. Juan Ruiz de Alarcón Award for the best play premiered in Mexico 1979 for La mudanza. Mazatlán Literature Award 1987 for Puros cuentos. Awards for the best play of the year granted by the Agrupación de Periodistas Teatrales and El Heraldo 1988 for Nadie sabe nada. National Literature Award Juan Ruiz de Alarcón 1992 for his career as a playwright. Fernando Benítez National Cultural Journalism Award 1997. Xavier Villaurrutia Award 2000 for La inocencia de este mundo. National Prize of Sciences and Arts, in Literature and Linguistics, 2001. Salvador Toscano Medal 2008, awarded by the Cineteca Nacional, the Carmen Toscano Foundation and the Mexican Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, in recognition of his work as a film screenwriter. Letras de Sinaloa Award 2009. Bellas Artes Medal in 2011, for his career as a playwright. Presea Caridad Bravo Adams, awarded by SOGEM, in 2014.

Known for

Writing
2023 From Inside Writing Story 60
Fair
2018 The Cousin Writing Screenplay 59
Average
2012 A Map for a Talk Writing Script Consultant 58
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2010 File of Attempted Murder Writing Screenplay 59
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2007 Beyond the Sky Writing Writer 60
Fair
2006 Contracorriente Writing Screenplay 59
Average
2002 The Crime of Padre Amaro Writing Screenplay 61
Fair
2002 The Blue Room Writing Screenplay 58
Average
1999 Herod's Law Writing Screenplay 64
Fair
1995 Midaq Alley Writing Screenplay 60
Fair
1994 Amor que mata Writing Screenplay 59
Average
1993 Miroslava Writing Writer 59
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1991 They will fight 10 rounds Writing Story N/A
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1990 La mudanza Writing Writer 59
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1990 Tony Tijuana Writing Writer N/A
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1990 La secta del sargon Writing Writer 59
Average
1987 Mariana Mariana Writing Writer 59
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1980 Las grandes aguas Writing Writer 59
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1980 Mistery Writing Author 59
Average
1979 Aunt Alejandra Writing Writer 59
Average
1979 Life Sentence Writing Screenplay 59
Average
1979 Cuando tejen las arañas Writing Screenplay 58
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1977 Los de abajo Writing Screenplay 59
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1976 The Bricklayers Writing Novel 59
Average
1975 Cry of the Turtle Writing Writer 58
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1973 El monasterio de los buitres Writing Adaptation 58
Average
1973 El monasterio de los buitres Writing Theatre Play 58
Average
1972 The She Wolf’s Orgy Writing Writer 59
Average

Crew
2000 Amores Perros Crew Thanks 73
Good