Her name became more and more associated with Latin America until the mid-1970s, when several long sojourns in New York and Chicago, rising interest in women artists, and publication of her literary work in English-speaking countries and in translations around the world brought her rediscovery among the cultural elite. In Mexico she devoted herself to creating the body of paintings, graphics, textiles, and sculpture upon which rests her international reputation in the visual arts, as well as writing the classic fantasy The Hearing Trumpet and numerous short fictions and plays. There she remained for much of her life, raising her two sons, Gabriel and Pablo, together with her second husband, the Hungarian photographer Emerico Weisz. With the advent of the war Max Ernst was interned by the French as an enemy alien and Leonora fled to Spain, and then migrated to New York and eventually Mexico City. While in Paris she participated in Surrealist exhibitions and published her first stories. In 1937 she met Max Ernst and moved with him to Paris, where she became a prominent figure in the still-flourishing Surrealist group. A precocious child, she was expelled from convent school as an unteachable teenager, and went to study in Florence before attending art school in London. Leonora Carrington was born in 1917 in Lancashire, England, to an Irish mother and an English father.
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