Elena Poniatowska

Elena Poniatowska, born Hélène Amor in Paris in 1932, is a French-born Mexican journalist and author who writes about social and political issues, often centered on women and the poor. She is best known for La noche de Tlatelolco, published in English as Massacre in Mexico, an account of the 1968 student protests in Mexico City. Her fiction includes Here's to You, Jesusa! and Dear Diego, a novel told in letters from a Russian painter to Diego Rivera. She is still writing.