No Se

Carlos Fuentes Macías (November 11, 1928 – May 15, 2012) was a Mexican novelist and essayist. Among his works are The Death of Artemio Cruz(1962), Aura (1962), The Old Gringo (1985) and Christopher Unborn (1987). In his obituary, the New York Times described him as "one of the most admired writers in the Spanish-speaking world" and an important influence on "El Boom", the "explosion of LatinAmerican literature in the 1960s and '70s",[1] while The Guardian called him "Mexico's most celebrated novelist".[2] His many literary honors include the Miguel de Cervantes Prize as well as Mexico's highest award, the Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor. He was often named as a likely candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature, though he never won.
-------------------------------------------------Biography
Fuentes was born in Panama City to Berta Macías and Rafael Fuentes, the latter of whom was a Mexican diplomat.[1][4] As the family moved for his father's career, Fuentes spent his childhood in various Latin American capital cities,[2] an experience he later described as giving him the ability to view Latin America as a critical outsider.[5] From 1934 to 1940, Fuentes' father was postedto the Mexican Embassy in Washington, D.C.,[6] where Carlos attended English-language school, eventually becoming fluent.[2][6] He also began to write during this time, creating his own magazine, which he shared with apartments on his block.[2]
In 1938, Mexico nationalized foreign oil holdings, leading to a national outcry in the U.S. and Fuentes' ostracism by his American classmates; he laterpointed to the event as the moment in which he began to understand himself as Mexican.[6] In 1940, the Fuentes family was transferred to Santiago, Chile. There Carlos first became interested in socialism, which would become one of his lifelong passions, in part through his interest in the poetry ofPablo Neruda.[7] He lived in Mexico for the first time at the age of 16, when he went to study law atthe National Autonomous University of Mexico(UNAM) in Mexico City with an eye toward a diplomatic career.[2] During this time, he also began working at the daily newspaper Hoy and writing short stories.[2]
In 1957, Fuentes was named head of cultural relations at the Secretariat of Foreign Affairs.[6] The following year, he published Where the Air is Clear, which immediately made him a "nationalcelebrity"[6] and allowed him to leave his diplomatic post to write full-time.[1] In 1959, he moved to Havana in the wake of the Cuban Revolution, where he wrote pro-Castro articles and essays.[6] The same year, he married Mexican actress Rita Macedo.[2]Considered "dashingly handsome",[4] Fuentes also had high profile affairs with actresses Jeanne Moreau and Jean Seberg, the latter of whom inspiredhis novel Diana: The Goddess Who Hunts Alone.[6] His second marriage, to journalist Silvia Lemus, lasted until his death.[8]
Fuentes served as Mexico's ambassador to France from 1975 to 1977, resigning in protest of former President Gustavo Díaz Ordaz's appointment as ambassador to Spain.[1] He also taught at Brown, Princeton, Harvard, Columbia, University of Pennsylvania, Dartmouth,and Cornell.[8][9] His friends included Luis Buñuel, William Styron, Friedrich Durrenmatt,[6] and sociologist C. Wright Mills, to whom he dedicated his book The Death of Artemio Cruz.[10] Once good friends with Nobel-winning Mexican poet Octavio Paz, Fuentes became estranged from him in the 1980s in a disagreement over the Sandinistas, whom Fuentes supported.[1]In 1988, Paz's magazine Vuelta carried an attackby Enrique Krauze on the legitimacy of Fuentes' Mexican identity, opening a feud between Paz and Fuentes that lasted until Paz's 1998 death.[6]
Fuentes fathered three children. Only one of them survived him: Cecilia Fuentes Macedo, born in 1962.[1] A son, Carlos Fuentes Lemus, died from complications associated with hemophilia in 1999 at the age of 25. A daughter, Natasha Fuentes Lemus (born...