Agustín Yáñez Delgadillo (May 4, 1904 in

Guadalajara Guadalajara ( ; ) is the capital and the most populous city in the western Mexican List of states of Mexico, state of Jalisco, as well as the most densely populated municipality in Jalisco. According to the 2020 census, the city has a population ...

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– January 17, 1980 in Mexico City) was a Mexican writer and politician who served as

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and

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during

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. He is the author of numerous books and the recipient, in 1952 as member of the ''

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'', in 1973, of the ''Premio Nacional de las Letras''. Al filo del agua (On the Edge of the Storm) is considered his most important work, according to the Encyclopedia of Latin American and Caribbean literature, 1900-2003 By Daniel Balderston, Mike Gonzalez, page 616.

Education and teaching profession

Yáñez studied

law Law is a set of rules that are created and are enforceable by social or governmental institutions to regulate behavior, with its precise definition a matter of longstanding debate. It has been variously described as a science and as the ar ...

in the ''Escuela de Jurisprudencia de Guadalajara'' and

philosophy Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, Value (ethics and social sciences), value, mind, and language. It is a rational an ...

in the

National Autonomous University of Mexico The National Autonomous University of Mexico (, UNAM) is a public university, public research university in Mexico. It has several campuses in Mexico City, and many others in various locations across Mexico, as well as a presence in nine countri ...

(UNAM). He held several teaching positions throughout his life, he was a professor in the ''Escuela Normal para Señoritas de Guadalajara'' from 1923 to 1929, in the ''Preparatoria José Paz Camacho'' from 1926 to 1929, in the ''Preparatoria de la Universidad de Guadalajara'' from 1931 to 1932, in the '' Escuela Nacional Preparatoria'' from 1932 to 1953, in the UNAM from 1942 to 1953 and again from 1959 to 1962. He entered El Colegio Nacional in 1952.

Writings

Essays

* (1942) * (1943) * (1945) * (1945) * (1945) * (1946) * (1958) * (1962) * (1962) * (1963) * (1964) * (1964) * (1965) * (1964,1965,1966)

Short stories

* (1928) * (1931) * (1940) * (1941) * (1942) * (1945) * (1946) * (1948) * (1964)

Novels

* (1943) * (1943) * (1947) * (1959) * (1960) * (1960) * (1962) * (1967) * (1973) * (1978) * (1981 concluded AD)

Political career

Agustín Yáñez was a member of the

Institutional Revolutionary Party The Institutional Revolutionary Party (, , PRI) is a List of political parties in Mexico, political party in Mexico that was founded in 1929 as the National Revolutionary Party (, PNR), then as the Party of the Mexican Revolution (, PRM) and fin ...

(PRI). He served as Governor of Jalisco from 1953 to 1959, undersecretary of the President of the Republic from 1962 to 1964 and

from 1964 to 1970. He headed the Mexican delegation to

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's 11th general assembly in 1960.

Education and teaching profession

Writings

Essays

Short stories

Novels

Political career

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