Carlos Fuentes

Personal Info

Known For Writer

Gender Male

Birthday 1928-11-11

Deathday 2012-05-15 (83 years old)

Place of Birth Panama City, Panama

Also Known As Carlos Fuentes Macías

Carlos Fuentes

Biography

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), Terra Nostra (1975), The Old Gringo (1985) and Christopher Unborn (1987). In his obituary, The New York Times described Fuentes as "one of the most admired writers in the Spanish-speaking world" and an important influence on the Latin American Boom, the "explosion of Latin American literature in the 1960s and '70s", while The Guardian called him "Mexico's most celebrated novelist". His many literary honors include the Miguel de Cervantes Prize as well as Mexico's highest award, the Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor (1999). He was often named as a likely candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature, though he never won.

Known For

Writer

Aura

as Story

Aura

as Original Concept

1996
Mexico

as Writer

1992
1989
Old Gringo

as Novel

1988
1986
A Time to Die

as Writer

1981
1974
Those Years

as Writer

1973
Las cautivas

as Writer

1972
Queen Doll

as Story

1967
Los Caifanes

as Writer

1967
Pedro Paramo

as Screenplay

1966
The Witch

as Novel

1966
Time to Die

as Writer

1965
1965
Las dos Elenas

as Writer

1964
The Golden Cockerel

as Screenplay