Juan Rulfo
Juan Nepomuceno Carlos Pérez Rulfo Vizcaíno, best known as Juan Rulfo, was a Mexican writer, screenwriter, and photographer. He is best known for two literary works, the 1955 novel Pedro Páramo, and the collection of short stories El Llano en llamas. In spite of Rulfo's slim literary production, he is considered one of the greatest Mexican and Latin American writers of the twentieth century who has influenced many subsequent writers including the Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez.
Background
- Born in
- Sayula Municipality
- Awards
- 🏆 National Prize for Arts and Sciences🏆 Xavier Villaurrutia Award🏆 Alfaguara Prize🏆 Guggenheim Fellowship🏆 Princess of Asturias Literary Prize
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Trending topics shown first"The living are those who are a shame. Don't you think so? The dead do not give war to anyone; but what is alive, they do not find how to mortify the lives of others. If they even kill each other to en…"
"It is a difficult thing to grow up knowing that the thing where we can hold on to take root is dead."
"Learn this, son: in the new nest you have to leave an egg. When I aged you, you will learn to live, you will know that the children are leaving you, that they do not thank you for anything; They eat u…"
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Timeline
1917
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Died
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