Den mexicanske romanforfatter og digter Jose Emilio Pacheco er død af et hjerteanfald. Han blev 74 og døde dagen efter han slog hovedet ved et fald. Pacheco fik Cervantes Prisen i 2009, den største litterære hædersbevisning i den spansk-talende verden.
The writer was especially loved in his country where he was regarded as humble and unpretentious, reports BBC online Monday.
He was born in Mexico City in 1939, and is best-known for his accounts of adolescents (halvvoksne) growing up in a corrupt and unjust Mexico in the 1940s and 1950s.
He is seen as one of Mexico’s foremost poets and a leading representative of his generation.
He also translated works by Samuel Beckett, Tennessee Williams and TS Eliot, and taught literature at universities in the US, UK and Canada, besides his work in Mexico.
His prizes comprise Reina Sofía Award (2009), Federico García Lorca Award(2005), Octavio Paz Award (2003), Pablo Neruda Award (2004), Ramón López Velarde Award (2003), Alfonso Reyes International Prize (2004), José Fuentes Mares National Prize for Literature (2000), National José Asunción Silva Poetry Award (1996), and Xavier Villaurrutia Prize.
Mere om ham på
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/José_Emilio_Pacheco
(man må desværre selv kopiere linket)
