Vicente Leñero

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.

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Amores Perros

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Average Rating

7.6

2786 votes

Release Date

Jun 16, 2000

26 years ago
The Crime of Padre Amaro

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Average Rating

6.7

297 votes

Release Date

Oct 01, 2002

23 years ago
Herod's Law

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Average Rating

7.9

194 votes

Release Date

Nov 09, 1999

26 years ago
Beyond the Sky

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Average Rating

6.9

65 votes

Release Date

Jan 12, 2007

19 years ago
Midaq Alley

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Average Rating

7.0

65 votes

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May 05, 1995

31 years ago
The Blue Room

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Average Rating

6.2

52 votes

Release Date

May 04, 2002

24 years ago
The Bricklayers

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Job Novel

Average Rating

6.5

31 votes

Release Date

Dec 23, 1976

50 years ago
The Cousin

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Average Rating

5.8

30 votes

Release Date

Feb 02, 2018

8 years ago
Aunt Alejandra

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Average Rating

7.0

29 votes

Release Date

Aug 09, 1979

47 years ago
Life Sentence

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Average Rating

6.7

27 votes

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Aug 09, 1979

47 years ago
Mariana Mariana

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Average Rating

6.4

20 votes

Release Date

Aug 05, 1987

39 years ago
Mystery

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Average Rating

7.0

16 votes

Release Date

Nov 30, 1980

46 years ago
Cry of the Turtle

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Average Rating

5.4

12 votes

Release Date

Jan 30, 1975

51 years ago
Miroslava

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Average Rating

5.9

11 votes

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Apr 03, 1993

33 years ago
File of Attempted Murder

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Average Rating

5.9

10 votes

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Aug 27, 2010

15 years ago
Contracorriente

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Average Rating

8.2

9 votes

Release Date

Mar 27, 2006

20 years ago
Cuando tejen las arañas

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Average Rating

5.1

8 votes

Release Date

Mar 22, 1979

47 years ago
Las grandes aguas

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Average Rating

5.0

8 votes

Release Date

Dec 04, 1980

46 years ago
Los de abajo

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Average Rating

6.3

7 votes

Release Date

Nov 15, 1977

49 years ago
A Map for a Talk

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Average Rating

1.9

5 votes

Release Date

Jun 13, 2012

14 years ago
El festín de la loba

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Average Rating

3.8

5 votes

Release Date

Nov 01, 1972

54 years ago
El monasterio de los buitres

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Average Rating

5.5

4 votes

Release Date

Oct 11, 1973

53 years ago
El monasterio de los buitres

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Average Rating

5.5

4 votes

Release Date

Oct 11, 1973

53 years ago
La mudanza

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Average Rating

4.7

3 votes

Release Date

Jan 01, 1990

36 years ago
Amor que mata

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Average Rating

5.0

2 votes

Release Date

Jan 01, 1994

32 years ago
La secta del sargon

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Average Rating

5.0

2 votes

Release Date

Jan 01, 1990

36 years ago
Pelearán diez rounds

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0.0

0 votes

Release Date

Jan 01, 1991

35 years ago
From Inside

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0.0

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Release Date

Nov 02, 2023

2 years ago
Tony Tijuana

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0.0

0 votes

Release Date

Jan 01, 1990

36 years ago
Puras mentiras

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Average Rating

0.0

0 votes

Release Date

Jan 01, 2013

13 years ago

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