Juan Rulfo
16 May 1917 – 7 January 1986
Juan Rulfo was a Mexican writer and photographer whose reputation rests on two books: the short-story collection El Llano en llamas (1953) and the novel Pedro Paramo (1955). Set in the rural Jalisco of his childhood, his work became a central reference for later Latin American fiction. He spent much of his working life as an editor at the Instituto Nacional Indigenista in Mexico City.
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Life events
Born into a landowning family whose fortunes were undone by the Mexican Revolution and the Cristero War.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHis father was shot during the rural violence of the period; his mother died a few years later and he was placed in an orphanage in Guadalajara.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgSettled in the capital, worked for the immigration department and attended literature lectures at the National University as an auditor.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgMarried after a long correspondence; the couple had four children.
A collection of seventeen stories of rural Jalisco, written with support from a Centro Mexicano de Escritores fellowship.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgThe short novel, set in the ghost village of Comala, became one of the most widely translated works of Mexican literature.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgWorked in the institute's editorial department in Mexico City for the rest of his career.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgReceived the Spanish prize in recognition of his work.
Source: en.wikipedia.org