Sergio Pitol
Novelist, Author
1933 –
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Who is Sergio Pitol?
Sergio Pitol Demeneghi is a prominent Mexican writer, translator and diplomat. In 2005 he received the Cervantes Prize, the most prestigious literary award in the Spanish-speaking world.
Pitol studied law and literature and served in the Mexican foreign service at Rome, Belgrade, Warsaw, Paris, Beijing, Moscow, Budapest and Barcelona. He started publishing novels in the late 1960s.
He's been an advocate of human rights in Mexico and a critic of political orientations that place the state above the human beings.
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- Born
- Mar 18, 1933
Puebla - Also known as
- Sergio Pitol Demeneghi
- Sergio Pitol Deméneghi
- Ethnicity
- Italian immigration to Mexico
- Nationality
- Mexico
- Profession
- Education
- National Autonomous University of Mexico
Law
(1950 - 1955) - Literature
- National Autonomous University of Mexico
- Lived in
- Puebla
(1933/03/18 - ) - Xalapa
(1993 - )
- Puebla
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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