Voz viva de México (Live voice of Mexico) is a collection of authors reading their works. It has nearly one thousand audible documents by Spanish language writers and essayists, which have been recorded since 1959 and edited in diverse formats. It is a production of the Direction of Literature of the Autonomous National University of Mexico. Among the voices that this collection contains, there are several authors rewarded with prestigious prizes like the Nobel, Cervantes, and Princess of Asturias. In 2006 this collection was added to the Register Memory of the World of Mexico, recognised by the Unesco.
The initiative began in 1959 by initiative of Efrén of the Pozo in Radio UNAM. The first texts recorded were of Alfonso Reyes, followed by Jaime Torres Bodet, Carlos Pellicer, Martín Luis Guzmán, Artemio de Valle Arizpe, José Gorostiza and Agustín Yáñez. When Max Aub led the project, he decided to further divide the project in the following series:
Later, the collection would remain subdivided only in Voz viva of Mexico and Voz viva de América Latina, when the Unión de Universidades de América Latina asked the UNAM for the register to be expanded to Latin American authors. This allowed to recording of texts by José Martí, Rubén Darío, Pablo Neruda, and Julio Cortázar.
By 2010, Voz viva de México has edited 164 titles on vinyl records and 170 compact discs. In 2014 the UNAM signed an agreement with the Cervantes Institute to allow it to be incorporated into the collection.