...Families" is the latest work by Carlos Fuentes, one of Mexico's men of letters and a self-described chronicler of his country's tumultuous history. Taken together, the 16 somewhat interrelated stories offer a summation of Mexican family mores as Fuentes perceives...
...of others and the promotion of authentic spiritual and moral values." He was fiercely criticized for his efforts to get Carlos Fuentes' novel "Aura" dropped from a suggested reading list at his daughter's private junior high school, on the grounds it was too...
...have appeared in Latin America since the so-called "Boom" that produced Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Mario Vargas Llosa and Carlos Fuentes. And he knew it. In fact, Bolano took pride in being against magical realism. He derided his predecessors' eagerness to adopt...
...of Don Quixote author and prize namesake Miguel de Cervantes. Past winners of the Cervantes prize include Mexico's Carlos Fuentes, Argentine poet Juan Gelman, Mexican writer and Nobel laureate Octavio Paz and Spanish essayist and philosopher Maria Zambrano. Note:...
...Mexicos leading novelist over the past 50 years, Carlos Fuentes has written prolifically about class and cultural identity in Latin America. In Happy Families, he tells a set of short stories about love and family relationships in central Americas high society,...
...Perez charged about $1,300 to her credit card for a fourth round-trip ticket for her 6-year-old son. Two months later, Carlos Fuentes and his family were being told a different version of the same story at the airport. Of the four tickets to El Salvador he...
...to be relocated to a new site. (Scott Varley / Staff Photographer) "This is our home for our children," said resident Carlos Fuentes. "This is our legacy they are taking away from us." Carlos Moreno, whose parents live in the park, has been a leading advocate...
...writer has been chosen for the honour, which has previously been won by Margaret Atwood, Michel Tremblay, Norman Mailer and Carlos Fuentes. Byatt, 72, is fluent in French and German. Her sister is the writer Margaret Drabble. Born Antonia Susan Byatt in Yorkshire,...
...in the United States to help grow our economy.â Carlos Fuentes honored: President Felipe Calderón said the best way to honor Carlos Fuentes in the 80th year of his birth is to read his work. He said the government will give schools a million copies of Fuentes'âThe...
...research in the world. Then on the other hand, I would have to include many of the great writers of our time; Carlos Fuentes is one, Mario Vargas Llosa, Alain Robbe-Grillet who was one of the inventors or the new novel in the 1950s and was elected to the Académie...