Born in Panama City on 11 November 1928, under the astrological sign of Scorpio, as he is fond of mentioning, Carlos Fuentes, one of Mexico's premier novelists, is the son of Rafael Fuentes Boettiger, a career diplomat and at the time attache to the...

Born in Panama City on 11 November 1928, under the astrological sign of Scorpio, as he is fond of mentioning, Carlos Fuentes, one of Mexico's premier novelists, is the son of Rafael Fuentes Boettiger, a career diplomat and at the time attaché to...

November 11, 1928. Carlos Fuentes was born in Panama City to Berta Macias Rivas and Dr. Rafael Fuentes Boettiger, a diplomat attached to the Mexican legation. "The problem of my baptism then arose. As if the waters of the two neighbouring oceans...

Author, diplomat, editor, political writer, and essayist, Carlos Fuentes wears all these hats in his works which blend realism, fantasy, social protest, psychological insight, and history. Books such as Where the Air Is Clear, The Death of Artemio...

Carlos Fuentes (born 1928) was a Mexican short-story writer, novelist, essayist, and political writer whose works are a mixture of social protest, realism, psychological insight, and fantasy. Carlos Fuentes was born on Nov. 11, 1928, in Mexico City. As...