Personalities

Meet Carlos Fuentes

Writer, narrator, playright and essayist.

His work has been translated into a dozen languages and covers the entire genre range: novel, short story, essay, film and theater script. Among his most notable works: Las buenas conciencias (The Good Conscience), Los dias enmascarados (The Masked Days - his first collection of stories), La región más transparente (Where the Air is Clear), La muerte de Artemio Cruz (The Death of Artemio Cruz), Los cinco soles de México; Memoria de un milenio (The Five Suns of Mexico: The Memory of a Millennium), Orquídeas a la luz de la luna, Los años con Laura Díaz (The Years with Laura Díaz). He was born in Panama, Panama on November 11, 1928.

He studied law at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and took the Econonmics Seminar offered by the Institute of International Higher Studies in Geneva, Switzerland. He served as delegate to Mexico in Geneva and ambassador to Mexico in France. He worked as a teacher at a number of North-American and European universities as well as founder and co-director of several literary magazines. He has received a number of literary awards, both national and internationa; amoung these the National Award of Leterature of Mexico, the Cervantes Award and Prince of Asturias of the Arts Prize.

> Find a selection of his books in English at Amazon.com
> Visit his website: www.carlosfuentes.com.mx (in Spanish)

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