carlos fuentes

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Carlos Fuentes

he traveled the world and lived for long periods in Paris, chose to die in the Air is Clear . The Cervantes Prize for Literature died of respiratory failure at the Hospital Angeles del Pedregal . Coordination of Cultural Dissemination of UNAM mourned the death of one of the most beloved storytellers of our country , always close to this university

Fuentes is one of the greatfigures graduates of this University , where she studied law. Encouraged from his youth determinants projects of university life as a writer in the Journal of the University of Mexico or as part of the group of artists who participated in Poetry Out Loud , revivalism contemporary theater he founded in Casa del Lago , another great writer Juan José Arreola.

Author of key novels of Latin Americanliterature ( Aura, the Air is Clear , The Death of Artemio Cruz ), Carlos Fuentes was part of various groups and generations of intellectuals linked to the University , founded some of the most important cultural movements took place in Mexico during the second half of the twentieth century.

carlos- fuentes- 36.jpgEn 1996 UNAM awarded an honorary doctorate and on the occasion of nationaltribute for his 80 years in November 2008 , this university was involved with the organization of the symposium transparent region , 50 years after organized by the Institute of Philological Research .

At that time thousands of university place in Sala Nezahualcoyotl 80 years of the writer, who was accompanied by his friends, the great storytellers Gabriel García Márquez, Nelida Pinon, Tomás EloyMartínez , Juan Goytisolo , Nadine Gordimer and Ben Okri .

In 2007 Carlos Fuentes decided to donate to the National Library , the repository maximum memory Mexico UNAM under guard , his personal collection , the Carlos Fuentes Fund , containing the first editions of his books, translations into more than 20 languages, and his collection of magazines.

On that occasion , the poet and essayistVicente Quirarte said to call " our writer " what is your expertise to make the novel a weapon of resistance, disturbance and consolidation of the soul. His work , he said , is an adventure born in our language that has been poured to a planet, Carlos Fuentes has explored in action and thought , with indefatigable traveler condition.

Fuentes carlosfuentes - wrote the same novel, essay , story andscreenplay that art reviews , newspaper articles, memoriosos writings and plays . It was one of the most renowned writers of the late twentieth century , author of a dozen novels and essays , among them the beloved Aura, who just turned 50 , The Death of Artemio Cruz, which this year will have a commemorative edition as Alfaguara planned ; transparent region , and Terra Nostra .

Recognizedwith the most prestigious awards, including the Rómulo Gallegos (1977 ) , Cervantes ( 1987), the Prince of Asturias Award (1994 ) and the Grand Cross of the Order of Isabel the Catholic (2009 ), Carlos Fuentes went without awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Mexican parents , Carlos Fuentes was born in Panama on November 11, 1928 . Because his father was a diplomat , spent his childhood invarious capitals of America: Montevideo , Rio de Janeiro , Washington DC, Santiago de Chile, and Buenos Aires Quito .

He arrived in Mexico at age 16 and attended high school in Mexico University Center . He graduated in law at the National Autonomous University of Mexico and economy in the Upper Institute of International Studies Geneva. In 1972 he was elected to the National College and waspresented by the poet Octavio Paz.

In 1975 he accepted the appointment as ambassador of Mexico in France as a tribute to the memory of his father. During his tenure, he opened the doors of the embassy to Latin American political refugees and the Spanish resistance.

In 1977 he resigned his post as ambassador to protest against appointment of former President Diaz Ordaz as the first ambassador of...
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