Agustín Yáñez

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Agustín Yáñez
Portrait of Agustín Yáñez in the Palacio de Gobierno, Guadalajara
Governor of Jalisco
In office 1 March 1953 – 28 February 1959
Preceded by	José Jesús González Gallo
Succeeded by	Juan Gil Preciado
Secretary of Public Education
In office 1 December 1964 – 30 November 1970
President	Gustavo Díaz Ordaz
Preceded by	Jaime Torres Bodet
Succeeded by	Víctor Bravo Ahuja
Personal details
Born	(1904-05-04)4 May 1904[1] Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
Died	17 January 1980(1980-01-17) (aged 75) Mexico City, D.F., Mexico
Resting place	Panteón de Dolores
Political party	Institutional Revolutionary Party
Education	University of Guadalajara National Autonomous University of Mexico

Agustín Yáñez Delgadillo (May 4, 1904 in Guadalajara, Jalisco – January 17, 1980 in Mexico City) was a Mexican writer and politician who served as Governor of Jalisco and Secretary of Public Education during Gustavo Díaz Ordaz's presidency.^[2] He is the author of numerous books and the recipient, in 1952 as member of the Academia Mexicana de la Lengua, in 1973, of the Premio Nacional de las Letras. Al filo del agua (On the Edge of the Storm) is considered his most important work, according to the Encyclopedia of Latin American and Caribbean literature, 1900-2003 By Daniel Balderston, Mike Gonzalez, page 616.

Yáñez studied law in the Escuela de Jurisprudencia de Guadalajara and philosophy in the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). He held several teaching positions throughout his life, he was a professor in the Escuela Normal para Señoritas de Guadalajara from 1923 to 1929, in the Preparatoria José Paz Camacho from 1926 to 1929, in the Preparatoria de la Universidad de Guadalajara from 1931 to 1932, in the Escuela Nacional Preparatoria from 1932 to 1953, in the UNAM from 1942 to 1953 and again from 1959 to 1962. He entered El Colegio Nacional in 1952.^[3]

Agustín Yáñez was a member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). He served as Governor of Jalisco from 1953 to 1959, undersecretary of the President of the Republic from 1962 to 1964 and Secretary of Public Education from 1964 to 1970. He headed the Mexican delegation to UNESCO's 11th general assembly in 1960.

• Statue of Agustín Yáñez
• Yahualica de González Gallo

• Young, Richard A. (1978). Agustín Yáñez y sus cuentos (in Spanish). Tamesis Books. ISBN 978-0-7293-0068-1.
• Carballo, Enmanuel (1966-01-01). "Agustín Yañez". Anales de la Universidad de Chile (in Spanish) (138): ág. 28–77. doi:10.5354/0717-8883.1966.22423 (inactive 1 November 2024). ISSN 0717-8883.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of November 2024 (link) (PDF)