Appreciation …

… Carlos Fuentes, 1928-2012: A voice of Mexico past, present and future.

For more than five decades, Fuentes was Mexico’s best-known, most decorated writer of fiction. He won several of the world’s most important literary prizes, including the prestigious Cervantes Prize. Said to be short-listed often for the Nobel, he never won; that honor went to fellow countryman, poet and essayist Octavio Paz, with whom Fuentes broke in a celebrated rift.