Author
Carlos Fuentes
November 11, 1928 – May 15, 2012 · Mexico
Writer, Screenwriter, Diplomat, Novelist, Lawyer, Journalist, Poet lawyer, Prose writer, Playwright, Opinion journalist, Lecturer, Critic, Polymath, Poet, Ambassador
Titles on list
1
Total weeks
1
Peak rank
#14
Biography
- Born
- November 11, 1928 · Panama City
- Died
- May 15, 2012 · Mexico City
- Nationality
- Mexico
- Gender
- Male
- Languages
- Spanish
- Education
- National Autonomous University of Mexico, The Grange School, Santiago, Graduate Institute of International Studies
Awards & Honours
- 1975Xavier Villaurrutia Award
- 1977Rómulo Gallegos Prize
- 1979Alfonso Reyes International Prize
- 1984National Prize for Arts and Sciences
- 1987Miguel de Cervantes Prize
- 1992Menéndez Pelayo International Prize
- 1992honorary doctor of the University of Miami
- 1994Princess of Asturias Literary Prize
- 1994Grinzane Cavour Prize
- 1999Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor
- 2001honorary doctorate of the University of Vigo
- 2002Common Wealth Award of Distinguished Service
- 2004Honorary doctor of the Free University of Berlin
- 2004Premio Real Academia Española
- 2006Four Freedoms Award – Freedom of Speech
- 2009Grand Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic
- 2011Prix Formentor
- 2011honorary doctorate of the Bordeaux Montaigne University
- honorary doctorate from the University of Cambridge
- honorary doctor of Harvard University
- honorary doctorate of the University of the Balearic Islands
- Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour
- Order of Isabella the Catholic
- Knight of the Legion of Honour
- National Order of Merit
- Order of Merit
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