Partner Héctor Herrera
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State Theater Gral. Ignacio de la Llave, C. Ignacio de la Llave 2, Represa del Carmen, 91050 Xalapa-Enríquez, Ver., Mexico
Emilio Carballido (Córdoba, Veracruz, 22 May 1925 – Xalapa, Veracruz, 11 February 2008) was a Mexican writer who earned particular renown as a playwright.
On 16 March 2007, Carballido and his partner of 20 years,
Héctor Herrera, were among the first couples to apply for a civil union following the enactment of the Federal District's 2006 Ley de Sociedad de Convivencia.
Carballido belonged to the group of writers known as the Generación de los 50, alongside such figures as Sergio Magaña, Luisa Josefina Hernández, Rosario Castellanos, Jaime Sabines, and Sergio Galindo. He studied English literature and earned a master's degree in literature from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). As a playwright his first work was Rosalba y los Llaveros, which premiered at Palacio de Bellas Artes in 1950, directed by well-known poet and stage director Salvador Novo. This was followed by a huge number of plays, including Un pequeño día de ira (1961), which earned him the Casa de las Américas Prize, ¡Silencio Pollos pelones, ya les van a echar su maíz! (1963), Te juro Juana que tengo ganas (1965), Yo también hablo de la rosa (1965), Acapulco los lunes (1969), Las cartas de Mozart (1974), and the box office hit Rosa de dos aromas (1986). Some of his works as a playwright were filmed for the screen, such as Rosalba y los llaveros (1954), Felicidad (1956), La danza que sueña la tortuga (1975), El censo (1977), Orinoco (1984), and Rosa de dos aromas (1989). In addition to more than a hundred plays and scripts, he also wrote two volumes of short stories and nine novels, and worked randomly as a stage director. His career in the Mexican film industry began with the script for La torre de marfil, written in collaboration with Luisa Josefina Hernández in 1957. In 1972 he received two Ariels for the storyline and script of Alfonso Arau's El Águila Descalza. On 27 May 2002 he was given the Ariel de Oro for his lifetime achievements which include more than 50 films, remarkably his collaboration in Luis Buñuel's Nazarín (1959).
Carballido died of a heart attack on 11 February 2008 in Xalapa.[1] Two days later, Governor of Veracruz Fidel Herrera Beltrán ordered a day of mourning in the state and announced that the Theatre of the State and one of the state literary prizes would be renamed after him.[2]
Tramoya, The Theater Notebook of the Veracruzana University, has long been a hotbed of great Mexican playwrights and an inseparable reference point for theater in Latin America. Founded in 1975 by Emilio Carballido and directed until the year of his death, the university publication is about to turn forty years old. In 2010 Tramoya was awarded at the Ibero-American Theater Festival in Cádiz, Spain, for her contribution to the Ibero-American performing arts. Currently, Tramoya is directed by Héctor Herrera, Carballido's former partner, who is also the founding director of the Emilio Carballido Festival. A choreographer by profession, Héctor Herrera studied at the National Ballet of Mexico and participated in the National Theater Company. In recent years he has been invited to the most important theater festivals in the world, as well as to the different tributes that have been paid to the Veracruz playwright.
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