Mexico City: Mexican author Carlos Fuentes died on Wednesday of a heart condition at the age of 83.
Though Fuentes did not win a Nobel Prize, he received many an award including the Miguel de Cervantes Prize and Mexico’s National Prize in Literature.
“He was the great promoter, innovator and ambassador of Latin American culture and the Latin American novel,” Bloomberg quoted Julio Ortega, a professor at Brown University in Providence, as saying. “From a very young age, he opened frontiers.”
His notable works are “Where the Air is Clear” (1958), “The Death of Artemio Cruz” (1962) and “The Old Gringo,” (1985).
Born in Panama in 1928, Fuentes spent much of his childhood in Washington, and then later in Mexico City and London.
Fuentes is survived by his wife Silvia Lemus, and his daughter Cecilia Fuentes Macedo.
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