What is Carlos Fuentes?
[[File:Carlos Fuentes.jpg|thumb|Carlos Fuentes in 2002]] '''Carlos Fuentes''' (11 November 1928 – 15 May 2012) was a [[Mexico|Mexican]] [[novel]]ist, [[essay]]ist, [[screenwriter]], and [[diplomat]].<ref name=bbc>{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/arts/features/latinamericanwords/mexico/pop_fue.shtml |title=Carlos Fuentes |website=BBC |access-date=28 June 2019}}</ref> Fuentes was born in [[Panama City]], [[Panama]]. His father was a Mexican diplomat, and while Fuentes was growing up, the family moved to different countries in [[South America]] and then to the United States.<ref name=nyt>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/16/books/carlos-fuentes-mexican-novelist-dies-at-83.html |title=Carlos Fuentes, Mexican Man of Letters, Dies at 83 |work=The New York Times |last=De Palma |first=Anthony |date=15 May 2012 |access-date=28 June 2019}}</ref> He got a [[Academic degree|degree]] in law from the [[National Autonomous University of Mexico]], but instead of being a [[lawyer]], he chose to be a diplomat and writer.<ref name=bbc /> He published his first [[novel]], called ''La región más transparente'' (''Where the Air Is Clear'' in English) in 1958.<ref name=nyt /> From 1975 to 1977, Fuentes was Mexico's [[ambassador]] to France. He died in [[Mexico City]], [[Mexico]] from a [[haemorrhage]]. ==References== {{reflist}} == Other websites == *{{imdb|0297391}} {{bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Fuentes, Carlos}} [[Category:People from Panama City]] [[Category:Deaths from hemorrhage]] [[Category:Mexican historians]] [[Category:Mexican poets]] [[Category:Mexican journalists]] [[Category:Mexican novelists]] [[Category:Mexican screenwriters]] [[Category:1928 births]] [[Category:2012 deaths]] [[Category:Disease-related deaths in Mexico]] [[Category:Miguel de Cervantes Prize winners]]