Esther Hernandez, a poet and UV academic, died yesterday

The author, teacher and researcher at the Universidad Veracruzana (UV) Esther Hernández Palacios died this Sunday at the age of 70, reported the director of the National Institute of Fine Arts and Literature (Inbal), Lucina Jiménez, on her Twitter account.

Dear Esther, there with the stars you will shine in lilac and purple, you will make poetry, you will paint the sky with colors. Great friend, tireless fighter, generous creator and teacher, endearing friend. The rain of Xalapa accompanies this sadness. Hugs to Ale and Bettyalso tweeted the anthropologist without specifying the causes of death.

Esther Hernández Palacios (Xalapa, 1952) has a degree in Spanish letters from the UV, a professor of modern letters from the University of Toulouse-Mirail, in France, a doctorate in modern letters from the Universidad Iberoamericana and a scholarship holder from the French Fulbright Foundation, from the extinct National Fund for Culture and the Arts, and the interdisciplinary program of women’s studies at El Colegio de México.

Fine Arts Award for Testimony in 2011

Former director of the Veracruz Institute of Culture, the poet and essayist is the author of the famous book Stridentism: memory and appreciation (1983), a project that brings together 14 papers rather uneven readings at a symposium organized by the UV’s Linguistic-Literary Research Center in 1981, as well as an interview with the poet and revolutionary List Arzubide and a bibliography on the subjectreviewed the literary critic Juan José Barrientos.

In its Facebook account, the Editorial Universidad Veracruzana expressed its regret for the loss of the academic. We deeply regret the death of our beloved writer Ester Hernández. A great woman who leaves us her poetry and her love for literature and teaching. We send a fraternal hug to her daughters Alejandra and Beatriz Méndez, to all her family and friends. Rest in peace.

In 2011 he received the Carlos Montemayor Fine Arts Testimony Award for the book Diary of a mutilated mother.

For the author, the word was the only way to overcome oblivion and a bridge that allowed her to connect with life after the murder of her daughter Irene Méndez.