Mexican Novelist Carlos Fuentes Dies

May 15, 2012 from Al Jazeera English

Carlos Fuentes, one of Latin America's best-known authors and a critic of governments in Mexico and the United States, has died after a literary career spanning more than five decades. He was 83. Fuentes wrote more than 20 novels and several collections of short stories. His best-known works include "The Death of Artemio Cruz," "The Old Gringo" and "The Crystal Frontier." Al Jazeera's Lucia Newman reports on the life of the author.

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Carlos Fuentes

Carlos Fuentes Macías was a Mexican novelist and essayist. Among his works are The Death of Artemio Cruz, Aura, The Old Gringo and Christopher Unborn. In his obituary, the New York Times described him as "one of the most admired writers in the Spanish-speaking world" and an im... Explore this topic

Mexico

Mexico, officially the United Mexican States, is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by t... Explore this topic

The Crystal Frontier

The Crystal Frontier is a 1995 novel written by Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes. The title can also be translated as "The glass border". Explore this topic

Old Gringo

Old Gringo is a 1989 film directed by Luis Puenzo and co-written with Aída Bortnik, based on the novel Gringo Viejo by Mexican novelist Carlos Fuentes. The film stars Jane Fonda, Gregory Peck, and Jimmy Smits. The film was screened out of competition at the 1989 Cannes Film Fe... Explore this topic

Short story

A short story is a brief work of literature, usually written in narrative prose. Emerging from earlier oral storytelling traditions in the 17th century, the short story has grown to encompass a body of work so diverse as to defy easy characterization. At its most prototypical ... Explore this topic

Latin America

拉丁美洲简称拉美，通常指称美洲大片以罗曼语族语言作为官方语言或者主要语言的地区。因为罗曼语族衍生于拉丁语，拉丁美洲由而得名。关于拉丁美洲究竟由哪些国家组成存在着不同的意见。从社会政治角度说，拉丁美洲主要包括美洲西班牙语和葡萄牙语盛行的地区：墨西哥、大部分的中美洲、南美洲以及加勒比海地区。这时它是伊比利亚美洲的同义词。尽管拉丁美洲的概念是由法国皇帝拿破仑三世提出的，其它罗曼语族的语言占主导的地区，例如较多说法语的加拿大魁北克通常不被包括在拉丁美洲范畴内。现在有时，特别是在美国，拉丁美洲的这个词被用来指所有美国以南的美洲，包括像伯利兹、圭亚那、牙买... Explore this topic

Lucia Newman

Lucia Newman is a reporter for Al Jazeera English and former reporter for CNN. In 1991, she received the Maria Moors Cabot prize from Columbia University for contributing to "the advancement of press freedom and inter-American understanding". In March 1997, Newman became the f... Explore this topic

Al Jazeera

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United States

The United States of America, commonly called the United States or America, is a federal republic consisting of fifty states and a federal district. The lower forty-eight contiguous states and the federal district of Washington, D.C. are in central North America between Canada... Explore this topic

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