Carlos Fuentes Macías was a Mexican novelist and essayist. Among his works are The Death of Artemio Cruz , Aura , Terra Nostra , The Old Gringo and Christopher Unborn . In his obituary, The New York Times described Fuentes as "one of the most admired writers in the Spanish-speaking world" and an important influence on the Latin American Boom, the "explosion of Latin American literature in the 1960s and '70s", while The Guardian called him "Mexico's most celebrated novelist". His many literary honors include the Miguel de Cervantes Prize as well as Mexico's highest award, the Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor. He was often named as a likely candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature, though he never won. Wikipedia
“Don't classify me, read me. I'm a writer, not a genre.”
"How I Started to Write", in Rick Simonson and Scott Walker (eds.) The Graywolf Annual Five: Multi-Cultural Literacy (St. Paul, Minn.: Graywolf Press, 1988); cited from Myself With Others (London: Pan, 1989) p. 27.
“What the United States does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is understand others.”
"To See Ourselves as Others See Us", in Time, June 16, 1986.
“No government functions without the grease of corruption.”
La Silla del Águila (The Eagle's Throne) (2003)
Describing a Mexican baroque church
The Death of Artemio Cruz (1962)
“The North American world blinds us with its energy; we cannot see ourselves, we must see you.”
"How I Started to Write", in Rick Simonson and Scott Walker (eds.) The Graywolf Annual Five: Multi-Cultural Literacy (St. Paul, Minn.: Graywolf Press, 1988); cited from Myself With Others (London: Pan, 1989) p. 5.
Quoted in Anne-Marie O'Connor, "Novelist Carlos Fuentes confronts mortality and his country's future", http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-fuentes-profile-2006,0,4464743.story Los Angeles Times, 26 April 2006
About being denied a visa to the United States in the early 1960s after he praised the Cuban Revolution; as quoted by Anne-Marie O'Connor, "Novelist Carlos Fuentes confronts mortality and his country's future", http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-fuentes-profile-2006,0,4464743.story Los Angeles Times, 26 April 2006
"Doing It Our Way", New Statesman & Society, 2 February 1990, tr. Alfred MacAdam
As quoted in International Herald Tribune (Paris, 5 November 1991)
Describing Hugo Chavez
Quoted in The Economist, 19 May 2012, p. 90
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