Carlos Fuentes
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| - | '''Carlos Fuentes Macías''' (born [[November 11]], [[, 1928]]) is a mexican writer and one of the best-known living novelists and essayists in the [[Spanish language|Spanish]]-speaking world. Fuentes has influenced contemporary [[Latin American literature]], and his works have been widely translated into English and other languages. | + | '''Carlos Fuentes Macías''' (born [[November 11]], [[1928]]) is a mexican writer and one of the best-known living novelists and essayists in the [[Spanish language|Spanish]]-speaking world. Fuentes has influenced contemporary [[Latin American literature]], and his works have been widely translated into English and other languages. |
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Carlos Fuentes Macías (born November 11, 1928) is a mexican writer and one of the best-known living novelists and essayists in the Spanish-speaking world. Fuentes has influenced contemporary Latin American literature, and his works have been widely translated into English and other languages.
Biography
Fuentes was born in Panama City; his parents were Mexican diplomats. In his childhood, he lived in Quito, Montevideo, Rio de Janeiro, Washington, Santiago and Buenos Aires. In his adolescence, he returned to Mexico, where he lived until 1965. He was married to film star Rita Macedo from 1959 till 1973, although he was an habitual philanderer and allegedly, his affairs -- which he has claimed include film actresses such as Jeanne Moreau and Jean Seberg- brought her to despair. The couple broke up amid scandal when Fuentes eloped with a very pregnant and then-unknown journalist named Silvia Lemus. They were eventually married in Paris in 1976. Rita committed suicide in 1993.
Following in the footsteps of his parents, he also became a diplomat in 1965 and served in London, Paris, and other capitals. In 1978 he resigned as ambassador to France in protest over the appointment of Gustavo Diaz Ordaz, former president of Mexico, as ambassador to Spain. He has also taught courses at Brown, Princeton, Harvard, Penn, George Mason, Columbia and Cambridge. He is currently teaching at Brown University.
He fathered three children: Cecilia Fuentes Macedo, born in 1962, now working on TV production and openly gay; a son, Carlos Fuentes Lemus, died from complications associated with hemophilia in 1999 at the age of 25. His daughter, Natasha Fuentes Lemus, died of undisclosed causes in Mexico City 22 August 2005. She was 29.
