Biography Of Carlos Fuentes

Carlos Manuel Fuentes Macías was a Mexican writer born in Panama City on November 11, 1928, he was the son of the Mexican diplomat Rafael Fuentes Boettiger and Berta Macías Rivas, he is the first of two brothers of this marriage.

His childhood was wandering because his father as a diplomat went from Panama to Ecuador the same year Carlos Fuentes was born, ending in 1932 in Rio de Janeiro, returning in 1933 to Mexico City to occupy the post of secretary of the regency of the Federal District on which for ethical reasons he decided to leave that position, returning to diplomacy, being transferred in the same year of 1933 to Washington States United; In the 1940s they moved again to Central and South America, arriving in Chile in 1941, then Argentina in 1942.

Return to Mexico by Carlos Fuentes:

Because of the war, his mother, his sister and he moved to Mexico, arriving in Mexico at the age of 16, completing their studies at the Mexico school.

He already had beginnings in literature and writing, but his family did not predict a way of life in it, so he entered the law career at the National Autonomous University of Mexico in the old school of Jurisprudence, in the middle of these studies he moved to Switzerland to complete his studies.

Admission to the literature of Carlos Fuentes:

After returning from Switzerland Carlos Fuentes found a welcome in a group called “Generation of half a century"This group was formed by youth with intellectual and political concerns, creating this group a magazine that they called"Half century”.

His first book .- Carlos Fuentes's first book was "The masked daysFrom 1952, which focused on the fiction of wonderful stories, being the baptism of him as an accomplished writer.

While he was working to stay in the foreign affairs secretary. During this decade of the 50's, Carlos Fuentes related a lot with Octavio Paz, launching together the magazine “Mexican Literature Magazine”, Which was released in 1956. Apparently the intellectual influence of Octavio Paz and the political influence of Carlos Fuentes allowed this magazine to host high-level articles from Mexico and other countries.

In 1957 he married actress Rita Macedo and left public service in 1958. dedicating himself to writing, beginning his first novel that focused on Mexico City, launching then "The most transparent region" which was published in 1958, positioning him as a great writer at 30 years of age, having related an exceptional criticism of the city.

The criticism he made of the book Julio Cortazar began a great friendship that greatly influenced the career of Carlos Fuentes.

After the Cuban revolution, Carlos Fuentes along with other Mexican and Latin American intellectuals met in Havana celebrating the event.

His support for Cuban policies led to his dismissal from the Novedades Magazine, being accepted along with other writers in the magazine. Always and his support for this revolutionary policy also produced the contempt of the North American government that branded him a foreigner. Undesirable.

In 1962 and being the father of his first daughter Cecilia, he published his novel “The death of Artemio Cruz”, Standing out in the international arena, as it criticized the Mexican revolution and its leaders of the time, becoming the most widely read work inside and outside the country.

Due to its impact, it sparked the rise of Mexican literature in the 1960s. Already by 1962 the publication of the novel "Aura”, Which would again put him in controversy years later.

The novel "Change of skin”Was censored in Spain due to the controversy and criticism it made towards the Francoist government, being published until after the end of the Francoist government.

The 1968 conflict and Carlos Fuentes:

The conflict of 1968 touched him in France, where he perceived a reformist policy, but the criterion is that It is not the same as in France, although they had the same origin, in Mexico it was more political and returned to Mexico.

Already separated from Rita Macedo, he met Silvia Lemus, marrying in January 1972, born in August 1973 his son Carlos Rafael was born, who suffered from hemophilia, the following year Natacha was born.

In 1974 he also published the "Novel Terra Nostra" which was considered very complicated, by 1975 he became ambassador of France, lasting two years in office.

Already in 1984 he received the national prize for literature in Mexico

He resigned two years later returning to his writings; in 1985 he finished the novel "Old Gingo”, Which was taken to the cinema at age three, starring Gregory Peck and Jane Fonda.

In 1987 Carlos Fuentes received the Cervantes Prize, receiving it directly from King Juan Carlos.

By 1994, “Theage of time"Following his life scope and receiving awards for his literary skills.

His family suffered the death at the age of 25 of his son Carlos, who suffered a heart attack in 1999.

In 2001 another publication aired "In this i believe"Where he analyzes the world and literature.

In 2004 Carlos Fuentes wrote one of his most controversial books "AGAINST BUSH”, Trying to raise awareness in relation to the candidate.

The shock was presented on a second occasion when the death of his second daughter Natasha was presented, on August 25 2005 where his daughter was found dead in the Tepito neighborhood, without the exact cause being given in the media.

After these sad events Carlos Fuentes did not fall into neglect, he continued writing.

In 2004 he participated in the third congress of the Spanish language, in Rosario Argentina.

Carlos Fuentes made strong criticisms in 2006 of Andrés Manual López Obrador precisely because he considered him unfit for the position and in the elections of 2012 he fully qualified as mediocre the three presidential candidates of Mexico assuring that he would not vote for any of they.

Finally, Carlos Fuentes passed away on Saturday, May 15, 2012 at the Hospital de Ángeles del Pedregal in Mexico City at the age of 83.

List of awards, recognitions, books, achievements and publications of Carlos Fuentes:

Awards and honours

• 1976 Xavier Villaurrutia Award
• 1977 Rómulo Gallegos Award
• 1979 Alfonso Reyes International Award
• 1983 Doctor honoris causa from Harvard University
• 1984 National Prize for Literature of Mexico
• 1987 Cervantes Award
• 1987 Doctor honoris causa from the University of Cambridge
• 1992 Legion of Honor
• 1992 Menéndez Pelayo International Award
• 1994 Grizane Cavour Award
• 1994 Prince of Asturias Award
• 1994 Unesco Picasso Medal
• 1996 Doctor honoris causa from the National Autonomous University of Mexico
• 1999 Belisario Domínguez Medal
• 2000 Honorary doctorate from the Universidad Veracruzana
• 2000 Doctor honoris causa from the Autonomous University of Sinaloa
• 2001 Member of the Mexican Academy of Language
• 2002 Doctor honoris causa from the University of Salamanca
• 2003 Grand Officer of the Order of the Legion of Honor of France
• 2004 Royal Spanish Academy Award for literary creation 2004
• 2004 Doctor honoris causa from the Freie Universität Berlin
• 2008 Don Quijote de la Mancha International Award
• 2009 Doctorate Honoris Causa at the University of Quintana Roo
• 2009 Grand Cross of the Order of Isabel la Católica
• 2009 González Ruano Journalism Award
• 2009 Honorary Doctorate at the University of Veracruz
• 2010 Honorary Doctorate from the University of Puerto Rico
• 2011 Formentor Prize for Literature
• 2011 Doctorate Honoris Causa at the Michel de Montaigne University
• 2012 Doctorate Honoris Causa at the University of the Balearic Islands

Books written by Carlos Fuentes:

• The most transparent region, 1958
• Good consciences, 1959
• The death of Artemio Cruz, 1962
• Aura, 1962
• Sacred Zone, 1967
• Change of skin, 1967
• Birthday, 1969
• Terra Nostra, 1975
• The head of the hydra, 1978
• A distant family, 1980
• Burned Water, 1983
• Gringo Viejo, 1985
• Christopher Nonato, 1987
• Constancia and other novels for virgins, 1990. 5 short novels:
• Constancia, The unfortunate, The prisoner of Las Lomas, Long live my fame and People of reason
• The campaign, 1990
• The years with Laura Díaz, 1999
• Instinct of Inez, 2001
• The Eagle's Chair, 2003
• All the happy families, 2006
• Will and Fortune, 2008
• Adam in Eden, 2009
• Vlado, 2010
• Federico on his balcony, 2012

essays

• Magic Lens. The Transformation of the Visual Arts in the Narrative World of Carlos Fuentes, 2010
• The Shattered Screen. Myth and Demythification in the Art of Carlos Fuentes and Billy Wilder, 2009
• The New Latin American Novel, 1969
• The world of José Luis Cuevas, 1969
• House with two doors, 1970
• Mexican time, 1971
• Cervantes or the critique of reading, 1976
• The Dragon and the Unicorn: The Tension of Thought Between the Old Blood Relations and the New Legal-State Relations that Arose with Civilization, 1980
• Brave new world. Epic, Utopia and Myth in the Latin American Novel, 1990
• The buried mirror, 1992
• Geography of the novel, 1993. Contains 13 essays:
• Three speeches for two villages, 1993
• New Mexican Time, 1994
• Portraits in Time, with Carlos Fuentes Lemus, 1998
• The five suns of Mexico: memory of a millennium, 2000
• In this I believe, 2002
• Against Bush, 2004
• The 68, 2005
• The great Latin American novel, 2011
• People, 2012

Stories and tales

• The Masked Days, 1954. 6 stories:
• Chac Mool, In defense of the Trigolibia, Tlactocatzine, the garden of Flanders, Litany of the orchid, By the mouth of the gods and The one who invented gunpowder
• Sing of the blind, 1964. 7 stories:
• The two Elenas, The queen doll, Fortune what she wanted, Old morality, The cost of living, A pure soul and To the viper of the sea
• Chac Mool and other stories, 1973. 7 stories:
• Chac Mool, Tlactocatzine, from the garden of Flanders, The two Elenas, The queen doll, Fortuna what she has wanted, The cost of living and A pure soul
• Burned water, 1983. 4 stories:
• On Mother's Day, These were the palaces, Las mañanitas and Andrés Aparicio's son
• Two educations, 1991
• The orange tree, 1994. 5 stories:
• The two shores (1991-92), The children of the conqueror (1992), The two Numancias (1992), Apolo and the whores (1991-92) and The two Americas (1992)
• The glass border. A novel in nine stories (1995) Includes:
• The capital city, The penalty, The dispossession, The line of oblivion, Malintzin of the maquilas, The friends, The crystal border, The bet and Rio GRANDE, Rio Bravo
• Restless Company, 2004. 6 stories:
• The theater lover, My mother's cat, Good company, Calixta Brand, Sleeping beauty and Vlad
• Fantastic Tales, 2007. 8 stories plus a short novel:
• Chac Mool, Panther in jazz, Tlactocatzine, from the garden of Flanders, By the mouth of the gods, Litany of the orchid, The queen doll, The sacramented robot, A tropical ghost and Aura
• Natural tales, 2007. 6 stories:
• Old morality, The two Elenas, A pure soul, Malintzin of the maquilas, The father's servant and The line of life
• Carolina Grau, 2010. 8 stories:
• The prisoner of the castle of If; Sparkly; The prodigal son; Olmec; The tomb of Leopardi; Salamander; The architect of the castle of If and the owner of the house

Theater

• All cats are brown, 1970
• The one-eyed man is king, 1970
• The original kingdoms: Spanish-Mexican theater, 1971
• Orchids in the moonlight. Mexican comedy, 1982
• Dawn Ceremonies, 1991.