Celebrity Biographies
Carlos Fuentes (II)
Carlos Fuentes, one of the greats of Spanish-American literature, died on Tuesday, May 15, 2012, from a hemorrhage derived from the rupture of an ulcer, in Mexico City, at the age of 83. Death caught his family by surprise, since nothing indicated that he suffered from serious health problems, he prepared his new book and attended literary events.
Although his parents were Mexican and he inherited their nationality, Carlos Fuentes Macías was born in Panama on November 11, 1928. Since his father was a diplomat, he spent his childhood in various cities throughout the American continent. He graduated in Law from the National Autonomous University of Mexico, and in Economics from the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva.
From a very young age, he collaborated as a journalist in the magazine Hoy, and began to write works such as “La muerte de Artemio Cruz” and “Aura”, considered two of the best novels of the boom in Spanish-American literature, a movement of which he was one of the more illustrious representatives, together with Mario Vargas Llosa and his great friend Gabriel García Márquez . For many years he appeared in all the pools for the Nobel Prize in Literature, but he never received it, despite the fact that he won other prestigious awards such as the Cervantes and the Príncipe de Asturias.
Very fond of cinema, he wrote several scripts for titles such as Las dos Elenas , Las dos cautivas , Un alma pura and Tiempo de morir , the latter together with García Márquez and Roberto Gavaldón, director of the film. He also wrote the adaptation of Pedro Páramo , the novel by Juan Rulfo, for the film version directed by Carlos Velo.
In addition, several of his works were adapted for the screen, such as La cabeza de la hidra and Gringo viejo , the latter directed by the Argentine Luis Puenzo and starring the veteran Gregory Peck .