Antonio Alatorre Vergara (July 25, 1922 – October 21, 2010[1]) was a Mexican writer, philologist and translator, famous due to his influential academic essays about Spanish literature, and because of his book Los 1001 años de la lengua española (The 1001 Years of the Spanish Language).

[2] Antonio Alatorre was born in Autlán de la Grana, Jalisco.

He studied law at first, but switched to studying literature at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and philology at El Colegio de México (Colmex).

He studied in France and Spain with professors such as Raymond Lebergue and Marcel Bataillon.

In addition to the Nueva Revista de Filología Hispánica (NRFH), Alatorre edited the literary journal Pan (Guadalajara, 1945), Historia Mexicana (El Colegio de México, 1952–1959), was the co-director of the Revista Mexicana de Literatura (1958–1960) and participated in Diálogos and Nexos.