Carlos Fuentes
Author Carlos Fuentes was born in 1928 and is Mexico’s leading novelist. He cites many Latin American writers as influences, as well as Cervantes, Faulkner and Balzac. His many novels include Terra Nostra, The Old Gringo, The Years with Laura Diaz, The Eagle’s Throne, Inez, and Where the Air is Clear. His nonfiction books include The Buried Mirror and A New Time for Mexico. Fuentes was editor of the Revista Mexicana de Literatura from 1954-58, Mexican ambassador to France 1974-77, Simón Bolívar professor at the University of Cambridge in 1986, and Robert Kennedy Professor at Harvard University in 1987. Fuentes has received many awards for his accomplishments, among them the Mexican national award for literature in 1984, the Cervantes Prize in 1987, and Légion d’Honneur in 1992. The author of more than twenty books, he divides his time between Mexico City and London, and is a guest professor at Brown University, Rhode Island.