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Carlos Fuentes Prince of Asturias Award for Literature
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Carlos Fuentes (Panama, – Mexico City, Mexico, ), being the son of a diplomat, spent his childhood and ungdom frequently moving from one place to another: Argentina, Chile, Brazil, the United States and elsewhere. He founded and ran the Revista Mexicana dem Literatura (), and was also co-editor of El Espectador, and other magazines.
He had a long diplomatic career, as a member of his country's delegation to the International Labour Organisation (ILO) in Geneva, as a member of the Ministry for utländsk Affairs´ press department, and director of the ministry's Department of Cultural Relations.
He was a professor of Literature at the University of Princeton, and had also taught at the universities of Colombia, Harvard and Pennsylvania, among others. He went back into diplomacy from to , as his country's ambassador to France, but resigned when Gustavo Díaz Ordaz was appointed as th
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PUL Manuscripts News
In the Princeton University Library acquired the papers of the acclaimed Mexican author Carlos Fuentes (–), whose passing on May 15 has been marked internationally by all who admired his major contributions to modern literature and his role as a cultural and political commentator on Latin America, past and present. The Carlos Fuentes Papers contain more than linear feet of materials, including notebooks, manuscripts of novels and novellas, short stories, plays, screenplays, nonfiction writings, speeches, translations, correspondence, drawings, documents, photographs, magnetic media, scrapbooks, correspondence, and other research materials dating from the s to s. When the acquisition of the papers was first announced, the Mexican political scientist Jorge Castañeda (Class of ) said, “Carlos Fuentes&#;s correspondence, manuscripts, and other papers read like a modern history of the region&#;s literature, politics, and personal relationships. The author’s in
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He is perhaps best known for his novels La Muerte de Artemio Cruz, Terra Nostra and his first novel La región más transparente.
In La región más transparente, a host of characters populate an overcrowded, vast and fragmented Mexico City. The story line is held together by interrelated stories that are centred on the multiple cultures, communities, political and social alliances, and physical spaces which produce contemporary life in Mexico City. Ancient Mexico, with its pagan history, mythology and human sacrifice is contrasted with the neo-liberal ideas of progress and free market economy, promoted by the aspiring middle and upper classes.
The title of the book Where the Air is Clear, refers to a time when the valley of Mexico was free from contamination, before Lake Texcoco dried up and industrialisation introduced smog and sudden modernisation.
Fuentes’ published work spans stories, novels, screenplays and essays and most have been translated into English, a