Mexican Columnists

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 20. Chapters: Ahmed Santos (newspaper columnist), Alvaro Morales, Carlos Fuentes, Carlos Monsivais, Carmen Aristegui, Daniel Sada, Denise Dresser, Enrique Krauze, Gabriel Zaid, German Dehesa, German Martinez Hidalgo, Homero Aridjis, Ilana Sod, Jorge Castaneda Gutman, Jose Luis Lezama, Leon Krauze, Manuel Buendia, Sergio Aguayo. Excerpt: Carlos Fuentes Macias (November 11, 1928 - May 15, 2012) was a Mexican novelist and essayist. Among his works are The Death of Artemio Cruz (1962), Aura (1962), The Old Gringo (1985) and Christopher Unborn (1987). In his obituary, the New York Times described him as "one of the most admired writers in the Spanish-speaking world" and an important influence on the Latin American Boom, the "explosion of Latin American literature in the 1960s and '70s," while The Guardian called him "Mexico's most celebrated novelist." His many literary honors include the Miguel de Cervantes Prize as well as Mexico's highest award, the Belisario Dominguez Medal of Honor. He was often named as a likely candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature, though he never won. Fuentes was born in Panama City to Berta Macias and Rafael Fuentes, the latter of whom was a Mexican diplomat. As the family moved for his father's career, Fuentes spent his childhood in various Latin American capital cities, an experience he later described as giving him the ability to view Latin America as a critical outsider. From 1934 to 1940, Fuentes' father was posted to the Mexican Embassy in Washington, D.C., where Carlos attended English-language school, eventually becoming fluent. He also began to write during this time, creating his own magazine, which he shared with apartments on his block. In 1938, Mexico nationalized foreign oil holdings, leading to a national outcry in the U.S. and Fuentes' ostracism by his American classmates;...