The Guardian: FBI treated Carlos Fuentes as communist subversive
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Carlos Fuentes
Carlos Fuentes Macías was a Mexican novelist, essayist and ambassador to France. Among his works are The Death of Artemio Cruz (1962), Aura (1962), Terra Nostra (1975), The Old Gringo (1985) and Christopher Unborn (1987). In his obituary, The New York Times described Fuentes as "one of the most admired writers in the Spanish-speaking world" and an important influence on the Latin American Boom, th…
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Born 11 November 1928 · Died 15 May 2012 · Q154691
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2013· 2 entries
Reveals that the FBI's upper echelons were interested in Fuentes' movements, because of the writer's suspected communist-leanings and criticism of the Vietnam War
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2012· 9 entries
The Guardian: Philip Roth scoops Asturias award and pays tribute to Carlos Fuentes
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The Guardian: My hero: Carlos Fuentes by Alberto Manguel and Liz Calder
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The Guardian: Listening to Carlos Fuentes with my eyes
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The Guardian: Carlos Fuentes dies aged 83
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The Guardian: Carlos Fuentes obituary
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Died 2012-05-15.
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Fuentes died in Angeles del Pedregal hospital in southern Mexico City from a massive hemorrhage
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“I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them.”
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“[The Mexican revolution] was a break with the past to recover the past. We were trying to deny we had an Indian and a black and a Spanish past. The Mexican Revolution accepted all heritages. It allowed Mexico to be mestizo.”
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2011· 2 entries
Awarded honorary doctorate of the Bordeaux Montaigne University (2011).
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Awarded Prix Formentor (2011).
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2009· 1 entry
Awarded Grand Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic (2009).
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2008· 1 entry
The Guardian: Review: Happy Families by Carlos Fuentes
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2006· 2 entries
Awarded Four Freedoms Award – Freedom of Speech in Middelburg (2006).
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The Guardian: Review: The Eagle's Throne by Carlos Fuentes
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2004· 3 entries
The Guardian: Observer review: This I Believe by Carlos Fuentes
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Awarded Honorary doctor of the Free University of Berlin (2004).
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Awarded Premio Real Academia Española (2004).
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2003· 1 entry
The Guardian: Review: Inez by Carlos Fuentes
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2002· 1 entry
Awarded Common Wealth Award of Distinguished Service (2002).
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2001· 2 entries
Awarded honorary doctorate of the University of Vigo (2001).
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The Guardian: Review: The Years with Laura Diaz by Carlos Fuentes
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2000· 1 entry
And later of Mexico's inability to reduce drug violence
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1999· 2 entries
Won Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor (1999).
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Fuentes published the novel The Years With Laura Diaz
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1994· 2 entries
Awarded Princess of Asturias Literary Prize (1994).
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Awarded Grinzane Cavour Prize (1994).
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1992· 3 entries
Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Miami (1992).
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Awarded Menéndez Pelayo International Prize (1992).
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Fuentes published The Buried Mirror: Reflections on Spain and the New World, an historical essay that attempts to cover the entire cultural history of Spain and Latin America
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1989· 1 entry
Was the subject of a full-length PBS television documentary, "Crossing Borders: The Journey of Carlos Fuentes," which also aired in Europe and was broadcast repeatedly in Mexico
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1988· 1 entry
Paz's magazine Vuelta carried an attack by Enrique Krauze on the legitimacy of Fuentes' Mexican identity, opening a feud between Paz and Fuentes that lasted until Paz's 1998 death
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1987· 2 entries
Awarded Miguel de Cervantes Prize (1987).
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And as a page in his subsequent books with minor revisions to the original plan
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1984· 1 entry
Awarded National Prize for Arts and Sciences (1984).
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1979· 1 entry
Awarded Alfonso Reyes International Prize (1979).
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1977· 1 entry
Awarded Rómulo Gallegos Prize for Terra Nostra (1977).
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1976· 1 entry
And the Venezuelan Rómulo Gallegos Prize in 1977
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1975· 2 entries
Awarded Xavier Villaurrutia Award for Terra Nostra (1975).
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Career landmark: ambassador of Mexico to France (1975–1978).
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1974· 1 entry
On the death of Carlos Fuentes
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1969· 1 entry
Fuentes was denied entry to Puerto Rico during a stopover on a transatlantic voyage from Barcelona to Veracruz, Mexico
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1967· 1 entry
Biblioteca Breve Award for A Change of Skin
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1965· 1 entry
For attending a New York conference and the 1971 imprisonment of poet Heberto Padilla by the Cuban government
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1963· 1 entry
After being denied permission to travel to a book release party in New York City, he responded: "The real bombs are my books, not me"
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1962· 1 entry
And is "widely regarded as a seminal work of modern Spanish American literature"
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1959· 1 entry
Moved to Havana in the wake of the Cuban Revolution, where he wrote pro-Castro articles and essays
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1957· 1 entry
Fuentes was named head of cultural relations at the Secretariat of Foreign Affairs
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1950· 1 entry
Studied at Graduate Institute of International Studies (1950).
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1940· 1 entry
The Fuentes family was transferred to Santiago, Chile
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1938· 1 entry
Mexico nationalized foreign oil holdings, leading to a national outcry in the U
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1928· 1 entry
Born 1928-11-11.
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