# David Huerta

> Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/David_Huerta
> Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/David_Huerta.md
> Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Huerta
> Source revision: 1311480361
> License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)

{{Short description|Mexican poet (1949–2022)}}
{{About|the Mexican poet|the American union leader|David Huerta (trade unionist)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2022}}
{{Infobox writer
| embed            = 
| name             = David Huerta
| image            = David Huerta.jpg
| image_size       = 
| image_upright    = 
| landscape        = <!-- yes, if wide image, otherwise leave blank -->
| alt              = <!-- descriptive text for use by speech synthesis (text-to-speech) software -->
| caption          = David Huerta in 2009, in a poetry reading
| birth_date       = {{Birth date|1949|10|08}}.
| birth_place      = [Mexico City](/source/Mexico_City)
| death_date       = {{Death date and age|2022|10|03|1949|10|08}}
| death_place      = [Mexico City](/source/Mexico_City)
| resting_place    = 
| occupation       = Poet, writer
| language         = 
| nationality      = <!-- use only when necessary per [WP:INFONAT](/source/WP%3AINFONAT) -->
| citizenship      = <!-- use only when necessary per [WP:INFONAT](/source/WP%3AINFONAT) -->
| education        = <!-- use only per [MOS:INFOEDU](/source/MOS%3AINFOEDU) -->
| alma_mater       = [National Autonomous University of Mexico](/source/National_Autonomous_University_of_Mexico)
| period           = 
| genre            = <!-- or: | genres = -->
| subject          = <!-- or: | subjects = -->
| movement         = 
| notable_works    = 
| spouse           = [Verónica Murguía](/source/Ver%C3%B3nica_Murgu%C3%ADa)
| partner          = <!-- or: | partners = -->
| children         = 
| relatives        = [Efraín Huerta](/source/Efra%C3%ADn_Huerta)
| awards           = 
| signature        = 
| signature_alt    = 
| signature_size   = 
| signature_type   = 
| years_active     = 
| module           = 
| website          = <!-- {{URL|example.org}} -->
| portaldisp       = <!-- "on", "yes", "true", etc.; or omit -->
}}
'''David Huerta''' (8 October 1949 – 3 October 2022)<ref name="excelsior">{{cite news |title=Murió el poeta indomable, David Huerta |url=https://www.excelsior.com.mx/expresiones/murio-el-poeta-indomable-david-huerta/1543568 |access-date=4 October 2022 |work=Excélsior |date=4 October 2022}}</ref> was a Mexican poet<ref>[http://www.poetrytranslation.org/poets/David_Huerta David Huerta] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150206064805/http://www.poetrytranslation.org/poets/David_Huerta |date=6 February 2015 }}, poetrytranslation.org, accessed 28 December 2010</ref> and the son of well-known poet [Efraín Huerta](/source/Efra%C3%ADn_Huerta). His wife was the writer [Verónica Murguía](/source/Ver%C3%B3nica_Murgu%C3%ADa).

== Biography ==
[[File:David_Huerta_en_Tepoztlán,_2018._Fotografía_por_Alejandro_Arras.jpg|thumb|left|125px|David Huerta in [Tepoztlán](/source/Tepoztl%C3%A1n), 2018.]]
He was born in [Mexico City](/source/Mexico_City), the son of the poets Efraín Huerta and Mireya Bravo Munguía, and was immersed from childhood in Mexico's literary environment. He studied [Philosophy](/source/Philosophy), and [English](/source/English_literature) and [Spanish literature](/source/Spanish_literature) at the [National Autonomous University of Mexico](/source/National_Autonomous_University_of_Mexico) (UNAM). There he met [Rubén Bonifaz Nuño](/source/Rub%C3%A9n_Bonifaz_Nu%C3%B1o) and Jesús Arellano, who published his first book of poems, ''The Garden of Light''.<ref name="lajornada2022">{{cite web | last=Macmasters | first=Merry | last2=Vargas | first2=Ángel | title=Falleció el prolífico y laureado poeta David Huerta | website=La Jornada | date=2022-10-04 | url=https://www.jornada.com.mx/noticia/2022/10/04/cultura/fallecio-el-prolifico-y-laureado-poeta-david-huerta-2147 | language=es | access-date=2025-06-12}}</ref>

Huerta spent many years translating and editing for the [Fondo de Cultura Económica](/source/Fondo_de_Cultura_Econ%C3%B3mica), an institution where he directed the magazine ''La Gaceta del FCE''. In addition to his poetry and essays, he wrote an opinion column in the political weekly ''[Proceso](/source/Proceso_(magazine))''. He opposed cuts to the cultural budget by the Mexican government, struggling in particular to preserve the home of the poet [Ramón López Velarde](/source/Ram%C3%B3n_L%C3%B3pez_Velarde) (whose library is named after Huerta's father), which has often been threatened by a shortage of resources.

His advocacy of literature and poetry was extensive as a coordinator of literary workshops in the [Casa del Lago](/source/Casa_del_Lago) of UNAM, [INBA](/source/Instituto_Nacional_de_Bellas_Artes_y_Literatura), and [Institute for Social Security and Services for State Workers](/source/Institute_for_Social_Security_and_Services_for_State_Workers). He was also a teacher of literature at the [Octavio Paz](/source/Octavio_Paz) Foundation and the [Foundation of Mexican Letters](/source/Foundation_of_Mexican_Letters).

Of himself as a poet, Huerta said: 
{{quote |"I am a writer of rather traditional poetry. I would say that what I do is a poetry of images, metaphors, similes, metonym, of all kinds of tropes and figures of speech. Rather than the cult or devotion of the image, I am sure that through images we can still say things that help us live a little on the fringe of the market, if that's possible."| [http://www.literaturainba.com/writers/bio_david_huerta.htm Biography of David Huerta]}}

Huerta died of [kidney failure](/source/kidney_failure) on 3 October 2022.<ref name="excelsior" />

==Awards and recognition==
Huerta received numerous awards, most notably the Carlos Pellicer poetry award in 1990, the [Xavier Villaurrutia Award](/source/Xavier_Villaurrutia_Award) in 2006 and in 2015 the [National Prize for Arts](/source/National_Prize_for_Arts_and_Sciences_(Mexico)) in the Linguistics and literature category. He was a Fellow of the Mexican Writers' Centre (1970-1971), the [Guggenheim Foundation](/source/John_Simon_Guggenheim_Memorial_Foundation) (1978-1979), and the [National Endowment for Culture and Arts](/source/FONCA) (FONCA). Since 1993 he was a member of the [Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte](/source/Sistema_Nacional_de_Creadores_de_Arte).<ref name="lajornada2022"/><ref>{{cite web | title=La Jornada: El Premio Nacional de Ciencias y Artes, a David Huerta, Sebastián y Los Folkloristas | trans-title=National Prize for Arts and Sciences to David Huerta, Sebastián and Los Folkloristas | website=La Jornada | date=2015-12-15 | url=https://www.jornada.com.mx/2015/12/15/politica/012n1pol | language=es | access-date=2025-06-12}}</ref>

== Works ==
*''The Garden of Light'' ([UNAM](/source/UNAM), 1972)
*''Notebook November'' ([Era](/source/Editorial_Era), 1976; Conaculta 1992)
*''Footprints'' of the civilized (the typewriter, 1977)
*''Version'' ([Fondo de Cultura Económica](/source/Fondo_de_Cultura_Econ%C3%B3mica), 1978 [Era](/source/Editorial_Era), 2005))
*''The Mirror of the body'' ([UNAM](/source/UNAM), 1980)
*''Incurable'' ([Era](/source/Editorial_Era), 1987)
*''History'' (Ediciones Toledo, 1990)
*''The objects are closer than they appear'' (1990)
*''The Shadow of the Dog'' (Aldus, 1996) 
*''The music of what happens'' (Conaculta, 1997) 
*''To the surface'' (Filodecaballos, 2002) 
*''The blue flame'' ([Era](/source/Editorial_Era), 2002) 
*''The White Street'' ([Era](/source/Editorial_Era), 2006) 
*Translations by the [Poetry Translation Centre](/source/Poetry_Translation_Centre).<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://www.poetrytranslation.org/poets/david-huerta|title = David Huerta|website = www.poetrytranslation.org|access-date = 2016-03-24}}</ref>

== See also ==
* [Mexican literature](/source/Mexican_literature) 
* [Efraín Huerta](/source/Efra%C3%ADn_Huerta) 
* [Fondo de Cultura Económica](/source/Fondo_de_Cultura_Econ%C3%B3mica) 
* [Xavier Villaurrutia](/source/Xavier_Villaurrutia)

==References==
{{reflist}}

== External links ==
* [https://www.palabravirtual.com/index.php?ir=cole.php&wi=108&idi=149&show=voces David Huerta Poems] {{in lang|es}}
* {{cite web |url= http://www.letraslibres.com/pdf.php?id=443 |title= Sheridan, Guillermo. ''Versión de David Huerta'' |language= es |access-date= 2009-02-11 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20061031222054/http://www.letraslibres.com/pdf.php?id=443 |archive-date= 2006-10-31 |url-status= dead }}

{{Authority control}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Huerta, David}}
Category:1949 births
Category:2022 deaths
Category:Poets from Mexico City
Category:Mexican male poets
Category:Mexican publishers (people)
Category:National Prize for Arts and Sciences (Mexico)
Category:20th-century Mexican poets
Category:20th-century Mexican male writers
Category:21st-century Mexican poets
Category:21st-century Mexican male writers
Category:Deaths from kidney failure
Category:National Autonomous University of Mexico alumni
Category:Xavier Villaurrutia Award winners
Category:Academic staff of the National Autonomous University of Mexico

---
Adapted from the Wikipedia article [David Huerta](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Huerta) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Huerta?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.