Fernando del Paso, awarded the Cervantes Prize, is a born creator, a runner of literature, who at 80 years has gone through all genres: drama, short stories, poetry and essays plus great painter and draftsman. In short, a stylist and innovator of the Spanish language.
An artist who is not “pass” for life, because in addition to everything I reviewed, a member of the Mexican Academy of Language and the National College of Mexico, has collaborated in some of the most important cultural magazines and supplements his country and has exhibited his work in Mexico, France, United Kingdom and United States.
The passion of a man who challenged his destiny, touched by many diseases, thanks to his love of letters, as he has acknowledged on several occasions, since along its life has suffered several strokes and three different cancers.
The writer and painter Fernando del Paso is the sixth Mexican to be awarded the Cervantes Prize, adds to Octavio Paz, Carlos Fuentes, Sergio Pitol, Jose Emilio Pacheco and Elena Poniatowska.
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Despite this, this creator born in Mexico City in 1935, ranging in wheelchairs, said “the real struggle waged by Mexicans living in extreme poverty and the true value is to parents looking for the missing, including 43 students of the Normal School Ayotzinapa “.
Del Paso living in Guadalajara (Mexico) since 1992, when he began to direct the Latin American Library at the University of Guadalajara, which has also awarded the Honoris Causa.
An intense activity that revolves around literature, “the richest of the world heritage: the print with which to melt and destroy empires and reputations,” wrote the author .
His great work, “News of the Empire” (1978), along with “Jose Trigo” (1966) and “Palinuro of Mexico” (1977) abounds and explores the episodes “more unique and beautiful “in his country, all wrapped in a rich and innovative aesthetics.
A Fernando del Paso, which hurts their homeland, Mexico, and also remembered when picked up Jose Emilio Pacheco, last March, Award characterizes its enormous ethical dimension and love for history and for the game of words.
“It hurts me to the core that our country falls apart,” said Del Paso in his speech: “I want to tell you what you already know (in reference to Mexican poet Jose Emilio Pacheco) : now also hurts our soul to the homeland, our soft country, it seems to crumble and return to being the mitotera country, the unruly and wild country of the history books. ”
“I want to tell that to the nearly eighty years of age makes me sad to learn the names of Mexican towns -more- I never learned in school today and I know just when they think of a tremendous injustice only when blood flows in them: Chenalho Ayotzinapa, Tlatlaya, Petaquillas … What a shame, yes, shame learn his name only as they pass our history as a people bathed in tragedy .. . “he said.
Today Del Paso, with Xavier Villaurrutia Award (1966), the Romulo Gallegos (1982), the National Science and Arts in Linguistics and Literature category, the award of the Guadalajara International Book Fair in 2007 and Alfonso Reyes in 2013, in addition to his prolific work awarded the highest award of the letters in Castilian, the Cervantes.
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