Fernando del Paso

Fernando del Paso studied at National Autonomous University of Mexico. The recorded working language is Spanish. The field of work recorded is creative and professional writing, prose and poetry. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are theatre. Residence is recorded at Mexico City. Works named in the authority record are José Trigo, Noticias del Imperio and Palinuro de México. Distinctions recorded are Guggenheim Fellowship, Xavier Villaurrutia Award, National Prize for Arts and Sciences and Rómulo Gallegos Prize.

• Name — Fernando del Paso • Birth Name — Fernando del Paso Morante • Born — 1 April 1935 • Birthplace — Mexico City, Mexico • Died — 14 November 2018 • Place of death — Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico • Language — Spanish • Awards — Premio Miguel de Cervantes (2015)

Del Paso was born in Mexico City and studied economics for two years at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). He then lived in London for 14 years, where he worked for the British Broadcasting Corporation, and in France, where he worked for Radio France Internationale and briefly served as Consul General of Mexico. He was a member of Mexico's National College since 1996 and won several international awards, including the Premio Miguel de Cervantes (2015), Alfonso Reyes International Prize (2013), the FIL Literature Prize (2007) Guadalajara International Book Fair), the Rómulo Gallegos Prize (1982), the Best Novel Published in France Award (1985) for Palinurus of Mexico, the Xavier Villaurrutia Award (1966) and the Mexico Novel Award (1976). Noticias del Imperio (1986) is an important contribution to the Latin American new historical novel. The novel, based upon the lives of Maximilian and Carlota and the French Intervention in Mexico, is called by the author a "historiographic" novel. This encyclopedic novel is remarkable in that, instead of trying to discover the "truth" about "what really happened," the author presents several possible versions of important and controversial events. Del Paso claimed influence from various authors, including Joseph Conrad, James Joyce, William Faulkner, Virginia Woolf, Erskine Caldwell, and Thomas Wolfe.

On 14 May 2007, the Universidad de Guadalajara paid homage to Fernando del Paso by naming the library and media center in Ocotlán, Jalisco, the "Biblioteca Fernando del Paso". This library is the largest in western Mexico, with a collection of 120,000 volumes and the capacity for 800 simultaneous users.

• Sonetos del amor y de lo diario (poetry, 1958) • José Trigo (novel, 1966) • Palinuro de México (1976; translated as Palinuro of Mexico, 1989) • Noticias del Imperio (novel, 1986; translated as News from the Empire, 2009) • Douceur & passion cuisine mexicaine (París, 1991) • Linda 67: Historia de un crimen (novel, 1995)

Fernando del Paso is recorded as having received Guggenheim Fellowship, Xavier Villaurrutia Award and National Prize for Arts and Sciences. Recorded at birth as Fernando del Paso Morante.