Carlos Fuentes dies from heart problems

• April 23, 2024

Carlos Fuentes , prolific Latin American writer and author of works as The most transparent region Y Aura, died on Tuesday May 15, victim of Heart problems at the Angeles del Pedregal Hospital in Mexico City, at 83 years old, sources close to the writer's family revealed.

This news shocked the world, because this Monday (May 14), it was named Doctor Honoris Causa by the University of the Balearic Islands.

Diverse personalities of both politics and the literature and culture have manifested through social networks their grief to his wife, Silvia Lemus, for the sensitive loss, among them Felipe Calderón, president of Mexico.

Carlos Fuentes , was born in the city of Panama in 1928. He was the author of more than 20 novels and had, among others, the Cervantes Prize (1987) and the Prince of Asturias (1994).

During his last interview, which he gave to the newspaper The country, commented that his youth system was to work hard, so that next Monday, May 21, he would start writing his novel titled: The Centennial Dance, in which he would approach the decade between 1910 and 1920 of the history of Mexico.