been sponsored by the Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes since 1991. References Links The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th ed. For more information on Villaurrutia's "Invitación a la Muerte," see Dr. Raymond Marion Watkins's From Elsinore to Mexico City: The Pervasiveness of Shakespeare's Hamlet in Xavier Villaurrutia's Invitación à la Muerte—published in Saarbrücken, Germany, by VDM Verlag, 2008. Dr. Watkins's book also includes extensive documentation of Villaurrutia's study at Yale University's Drama School from 1935–36, the only time Villaurrutia left his native Mexico City. 1903 births 1950 deaths Mexican male poets Mexican people of Basque descent Gay poets Mexican LGBT poets Mexican LGBT dramatists and playwrights Mexican male dramatists and playwrights Gay dramatists and playwrights 20th-century Mexican poets 20th-century Mexican dramatists and playwrights 20th-century Mexican male writers Mexican magazine founders Mexican literary critics 20th-century LGBT people