Bernardo Ortiz de Montellano

Bernardo Ortiz de Montellano (Mexico City, January 3, 1899 – Mexico City, April 13, 1949) was a modern Mexican poet, literary critic, editor, and teacher.

Ortiz de Montellano visited the Escuela Nacional Preparatoria. He taught at the Escuela de Verano, a school of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), and served as bookrevisor of the Secretaría de Educación Pública (SEP).

He was member of the literary group Nuevo Ateneo de la Juventud, which was founded in 1918 by Ortiz de Montellano, Jaime Torres Bodet, José Gorostiza, and others. The members of the group wrote for magazines and journals. In 1928 he was co-founder of the magazine "Contemporáneos" and was director of it from June 1928 through December 1931. He was also an occasional editor of the literary magazine "Letras de México", published from 1937 to 1947, chief-editor of "El Trovador", and was co-founder of the Cuadernos Americanos group.

Works Avidez, 1921 El trompo de los siete colores, 1925 Antología de cuentos mexicanos (prose) Red, 1928 Literatura de la Revolución y literatura revolucionaria (essay), 1930 Pantomima (theatrical piece), 1930 Primer sueño, 1931 El Sombrerón, (theatrical piece), 1931 Sueños, 1933 La poesía indígena de México, 1935 Muerte del cielo azul, 1936 Martes de carnaval Figura, amor y muerte de Amado Nervo (biographical work), 1943 El Sombrerón, 1946 La cabeza de Salomé Sombra y luz de Ramón López Velarde (biographical work), 1946 Literatura indígena y colonial mexicana (essay), 1946 Conversación epistolar a propósito del libro Sueños, 1946

Compiled and posthumously edited: Sueño y poesía, by Wilberto Cantón, 1952 Obras en Prosa, by María de Lourdes Franco Bagnouls, 1988