(Mexico City, 1948) Writer and university professor. His works have been translated into English, French, Italian, Portuguese and Greek. He is a full member of the Mexican Academy of Language and a corresponding member of the Royal Spanish Academy and of the Cuban and Nicaraguan Academies of Language. He was coordinator of Cultural Dissemination, president of the Academic Council for the Humanities and the Arts and director of the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters at university. He was also director of the Fondo de Cultura Económica.
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