Carlos Fuentes
Carlos Fuentes Macías was born November 11, 1928 in Panama City; his parents were Mexican diplomats. In his childhood, he lived in Quito, Montevideo, Rio de Janeiro, Washington, Santiago and Buenos Aires.
Following in the footsteps of his parents, he also became a diplomat in 1965 and served in London, Paris, and other capitals. He was the first to hold the Robert F. Kennedy Chair of Latin American Studies at Harvard University, has been a visiting professor at Princeton University, and is currently a Professor-at-Large at Brown University, where he visits the Department of Hispanic Studies for talks on Latin American literature and transatlantic studies. He has received numerous literary awards, including the Cervantes Prize in 1987 and was nominated for the Man Booker International Prize in 2007.
Fuentes regularly contributes essays on politics and culture to the Spanish newspaper El País. He is a stern critic of what he sees as American cultural and economic imperialism, especially with regard to Latin America.
