Elena Poniatowska receives the Carmen Serdán Medal

Puebla, Pue., The writer Elena Poniatowska Amor (Paris, France, 1932) adds new recognition to her prolific literary, journalistic, critical and scientific lawas she described herself. This Wednesday she received the Carmen Serdán Medal, a medal established in honor of one of the Serdán sisters who fought, defended and supported her revolutionary action in Puebla, which the journalist also accepted moved, as much or more than the first time her husband, Guillermo Haro , took her to see a telescope and see the stars.

Wearing a traditional red dress from the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, the same one she wore when receiving the Cervantes Prize in 2013, the highest award in the Spanish language, the author of The night of Tlatelolco He smiled and held his gaze to the sky, the same one he saw years ago next to Guillermo Haro, who was director of the National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics (INAOE), with whom he lived in Santa María Tonantzintla and whom he remembered throughout his thank you speech.

You look very beautiful on this sunny morning, totally unexpected, because at 93 years old one no longer expects these gifts from life, under the sky of Puebla, which is a city that my entire Haro family has loved and admired for years, all my children, who are three. But also if you want it, I would like to receive you as childrensaid Poniatowska, accompanied by the governor of Puebla, Sergio Salomón Céspedes Peregrina, and the municipal president José Chedraui Budib, among other public officials.

Visibly happy, she asserted that there are few Mexican heroes linked to the intellect and creative and consistent thinking of the Mexican Revolution, like the Serdán brothers, who in 1873, when Carmen was born, began an extraordinary lineage of patriots who gave not only the faith and certainty of an intellectual and creative homeland, precursor of the revolution that would break out almost 40 years later, but also the advent of patriots of the stature of an absolutely exceptional family.

The collaborator of The Day listed Natalia, Carmen, Aquiles and Máximo as men and women who have gone down in history as heroes, not only of Puebla, but of all of usand other intellectuals who occupy a prominent place in history.

Poniatowska Amor, also deserving of the Xavier Villaurrutia literary prize in 1971, which she rejected, for her novel Lilus Kikusshe remembered her husband and the way he felt true devotion by the Serdán family, because “they seemed like the best of Mexico.

He communicated to me his affection and devotion, since Tonantzintla and the INAOE were key in the first years of our children’s lives, who were baptized and married in the same church. of the town, he told as an anecdote.

He added that he would give Guillermo Haro special feeling see her receive this award, because He loved Tonantzintla and Puebla like his life itself.since the first one gave him the stars of a clear and generous night skywhich was then overshadowed by the light of the city of Puebla, its squares, monuments and streets.

Poniatowska recalled that she also received her doctorate from Puebla in 2002. for the sake of honor given to him by the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, which also awarded him the Academic Excellence award on the Tehuacán campus in 2013.

Now that this very beloved city of Puebla decides to give this legal scholar of science a new recognition with the name of the Puebla heroine, intellectual emissary of the Mexican Revolution, whose patriotism detonated the beginning of the political, intellectual and cultural life of the nation I humbly reiterate the devotion I have for the city of Puebla, for its inhabitants and for its children.he stated, pointing with his eyes at some of the minors who were present at the event.

He also thanked Tonantzintla, his extraordinary husbandGuillermo Haro, and his children Emmanuel, Felipe and Paula, who certainly way they could also be poblanos and they were a gift from the blue starsthe same ones that her husband discovered when looking at the sky of Puebla.

Nothing could honor us more than this medal from the brave and admirable Carmen Serdán, which has been given to me as an undeserved honor that moves me. And surely you notice it in my voice and my attitude, as much or more than the first time the director of the INAOE decided to take me to see a telescope.he finished with a broken voice.