José Emilio Pacheco
Novelist, Author
1939 – 2014
Who was José Emilio Pacheco?
José Emilio Pacheco Berny was a Mexican poet, essayist, novelist and short story writer. He is regarded as one of the major Mexican poets of the second half of the 20th century. The Berlin International Literature Festival has praised him as "one of the most significant contemporary Latin American poets". In 2009 he was awarded the Cervantes Prize for his literary oeuvre.
He taught at UNAM, as well as the University of Maryland, College Park, the University of Essex, and many others in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom.
He died aged 74 in 2014 after suffering a cardiac arrest.
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- Born
- Jun 30, 1939
Mexico City - Also known as
- Jose Emilio Pacheco
- José Emilio Pacheco Berny
- Jose Pacheco
- Spouses
- Nationality
- Mexico
- Profession
- Education
- National Autonomous University of Mexico
Literature - Law
- National Autonomous University of Mexico
- Employment
- University of Maryland, College Park
- Lived in
- Mexico City
( - 2014/01/26)
- Mexico City
- Died
- Jan 26, 2014
Mexico City
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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