Paso, Fernando del

Autor: Paso, Fernando del
Rok: 1935-2018
Oblast působnosti: spisovatelé, básníci, esejisté, dramatici, novináři, malíři, karikaturisté, ekonomové, diplomaté

Biogr./Hist. údaje: Mexický spisovatel, esejista, básník, novinář, dramatik, malíř, karikaturista, ekonom a diplomat.
Zdroj: Autoritní databáze Národní knihovny ČR

Fernando del Paso Morante About this sound audio (born April 1, 1935) is a Mexican novelist, essayist and poet.Del Paso was born in Mexico City and took two years in economics at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). He lived in London for 14 years, where he worked for the British Broadcasting Corporation and in France, where he worked for Radio France Internationale and briefly served as general consul of Mexico.He has been a member of Colegio Nacional de México since 1996 and has won several international awards, including the Premio Internacional Alfonso Reyes (2013), the FIL Literature Prize (2007 Guadalajara International Book Fair), the Rómulo Gallegos Prize (1982), the Best Novel Published in France Award (1985) for Palinurus of Mexico, the Xavier Villaurrutia Award (1966) and the Mexico Novel Award (1976).Noticias del Imperio (1986) is an important contribution to the Latin American new historical novel. The novel, based upon the lives of Maximilian and Carlota and French Intervention in Mexico, is called by the author a "historiographic" novel. This encyclopedic novel is remarkable in that, instead of trying to discover the "truth" about "what really happened," the author presents a number of possible versions of important and controversial events.