Paco Ignacio Taibo I (19 July 1924 in

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– 13 November 2008 in Mexico City), was a prolific

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- Mexican writer and journalist.

Life

His birth name Francisco Ignacio Taibo Lavilla González Nava Suárez Vich Manjón. He was the director and founder of the cultural section of '' El Universal''. On November 13, 2008, at age 84, Paco Ignacio Taibo I died in Mexico City from

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. He is the father of writer

Paco Ignacio Taibo II Paco Ignacio Taibo II (born Francisco Ignacio Taibo Mahojo; on January 11, 1949), also known as Paco Taibo II or informally as PIT is a Spanish- Mexican writer, novelist and political activist based in Mexico City. He is most widely known as the ...

, movie producer

Carlos Taibo Carlos Taibo Arias (born in Madrid, 12 May 1956) is a writer, editor, and retired professor of political science at the Autonomous University of Madrid. Ideology Carlos Taibo is a staunch advocate of the anti-globalization movement, the deg ...

, and writer and poet Benito Taibo.

Novels

*''Juan M. N.'' (1955) *''Fuga, hierro y fuego'' (1979) *''Para parar las aguas del olvido'' (autobiographical narrative, 1982) *''Siempre Dolores'' (1984) *''Pálidas Banderas'' (1989) *''Flor de la tontería'' (1997) *''Tres tuertos en el agua'' (unpublished)

Plays

*''El juglar y la cama'' (1966) *''La quinta parte de un arcángel'' (1967) *''Los cazadores'' (1967) *''Morir del todo'' (1983)

Essays

*''Historia popular del cine'' *''El cine por mis pistolas'' *''El Indio Fernández'' *''María Félix, La Doña'' *''El libro de todos los moles'' *''La Risa Loca (Enciclopedia del cine cómico)'' *''Breviario de la Fabada''

Journalism

*''Ocurrencias'' *''Notas de viaje'' *''El hombre sin corbata y otras fabulaciones''

References

1924 births 2008 deaths People from Gijón Mexican male writers Spanish emigrants to Mexico Deaths from pneumonia in Mexico {{Mexico-writer-stub