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Fernando del Paso Morante (April 1, 1935 – November 14, 2018) was a Mexican novelist, essayist and poet.


Biography

Del Paso was born in
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and took two years in economics at the
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(UNAM). He lived in
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for 14 years, where he worked for the
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and in France, where he worked for
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and briefly served as Consul General of Mexico. He has been a member of El Colegio Nacional de México since 1996 and won several international awards, including the Premio Miguel de Cervantes (2015), Alfonso Reyes International Prize (2013), the FIL Literature Prize (2007)
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), the
Rómulo Gallegos Prize The Rómulo Gallegos International Novel Prize ( es, Premio internacional de novela Rómulo Gallegos) was created on 6 August 1964 by a presidential decree enacted by Venezuelan president Raúl Leoni, in honor of the Venezuelan politician and Pres ...
(1982), the Best Novel Published in France Award (1985) for ''Palinurus of Mexico'', the Xavier Villaurrutia Award (1966) and the Mexico Novel Award (1976). ''Noticias del Imperio'' (1986) is an important contribution to the Latin American new historical novel. The novel, based upon the lives of Maximilian and Carlota and the French Intervention in Mexico, is called by the author a "historiographic" novel. This encyclopedic novel is remarkable in that, instead of trying to discover the "truth" about "what really happened," the author presents a number of possible versions of important and controversial events.


Library and Media Center

On May 14, 2007, the
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paid homage to Fernando del Paso by naming the library and media center in
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, the "Biblioteca Fernando del Paso". This library is the largest in the western region of Mexico with a collection of 120,000 volumes and a capacity for 800 simultaneous users.


Awards

* Xavier Villaurrutia Award, 1966 *
Rómulo Gallegos Prize The Rómulo Gallegos International Novel Prize ( es, Premio internacional de novela Rómulo Gallegos) was created on 6 August 1964 by a presidential decree enacted by Venezuelan president Raúl Leoni, in honor of the Venezuelan politician and Pres ...
, 1982 * FIL Literature Prize, 2007 * Alfonso Reyes International Prize, 2013 *
Miguel de Cervantes Prize The Miguel de Cervantes Prize ( es, Premio de Literatura en Lengua Castellana Miguel de Cervantes) is awarded annually to honour the lifetime achievement of an outstanding writer in the Spanish language. History The prize was established in 1975 ...
, 2015


Selected works

*''Sonetos del amor y de lo diario'' (poetry, 1958) *''José Trigo'' (novel, 1966) *''Palinuro de México'' (1976; translated as ''Palinuro of Mexico'', 1989) *''Noticias del Imperio'' (novel, 1986; translated as ''
News from the Empire ''News from the Empire'' (Spanish: ') is a 1987 historical novel by Mexican writer Fernando del Paso about the Second French Intervention in Mexico and the Second Mexican Empire, with Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico and his wife Carlota of Mexic ...
'', 2009) *''Douceur & passion cuisine mexicaine'' (París, 1991) *''Linda 67: Historia de un crimen'' (novel, 1995)


External links


Fernando del Paso
( El Colegio Nacional)
Fernando del Paso Library and Media Center


References

1935 births 2018 deaths BBC people International Writing Program alumni Male novelists Members of El Colegio Nacional (Mexico) Mexican male writers Mexican novelists National Autonomous University of Mexico alumni People from Mexico City Radio France people Premio Cervantes winners {{Mexico-writer-stub