Luis Zapata Quiroz (27 April 1951 – 4 November 2020) was one of the most prominent

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writers in

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, 2001. .

Career

Born in

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, on 27 April 1951, Luis Zapata studied French literature at the

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(UNAM). In addition to his novels (most famously, ''El vampiro de la colonia Roma'', 1979), he also wrote plays and short stories and was active in the field of cultural journalism. He was also a specialist translator of

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. Zapata died in Mexico City on 4 November 2020, after being hospitalized in

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a month earlier.Fallece escritor Luis Zapata, autor de ‘El vampiro de la Colonia Roma

Select Novels

* ''Hasta en las mejores familias (Even in the Best of Families)'', 1975 * ''El vampiro de la colonia Roma (Adonis Garcia, A Picaresque Novel)'', 1979 * ''De pétalos perennes (Perennial Petals)'', 1981 * ''Melodrama'', 1983 * ''En jirones (In Tatters)'', 1985 * ''La hermana secreta de Angélica María (Angélica Maria's Secret Sister)'', 1989 * ''¿Por qué mejor no nos vamos? (Why Don't We Just Leave?)'', 1992 * ''La más fuerte pasión (The Strongest Passion)'', 1995 * ''Los postulados del buen golpista'', 1995 * ''Siete noches junto al mar'', 1999 * ''La historia de siempre (The Same Story As Always)'', 2007 * ''Escena y farsa es la vida'' (2014) * ''Como sombras y sueños'' (2014) * ''Autobiografía póstuma'' (2014)

References

1951 births Mexican male novelists 20th-century Mexican male writers 21st-century Mexican male writers Gay novelists Mexican LGBT novelists 2020 deaths Writers from Guerrero {{Mexico-writer-stub