Gregorio López (writer)

Gregorio López y Fuentes (November 17, 1897 – December 10, 1966) was a Mexican novelist, poet, and journalist. He was one of the leading chroniclers of the Mexican Revolution.

For the captain who inspired Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea, see Gregorio Fuentes.

Biography

'López y Fuentes' was born in a ranch called "El Mommy" in the Huasteca region of Veracruz in 1895. He started writing at the age of 15, when the Mexican Revolution began. Many of his books are related to the civil conflict.

Later on he became a teacher of literature at a school in Mexico City. In 1921 he began writing for the El Universal often under the Tulio F. Peseenz pseudonym. His stories were seen as exciting, humorous, and symbolic of Mexico. A realist, many of his works concerned the oppression of Native Americans. He was a contemporary of Mariano Azuela and Martín Luis Guzmán.

He has written many books including La siringa de cristal (1914), Claros de selva (1921), El vagabundo (1922), El alma del poblacho (1924), Campamento (1931), Tierra (1932), ¡Mi general! (1934), El Indio (1935), Arrieros (1937), Huasteca (1939), Una Carta a Dios (1940) A letter to God, and many more

He was awarded the National Prize of Arts and Sciences in 1935.

gollark: Moore's law is about transistor count per chip doubling every two years.
gollark: No, it's not THAT.
gollark: To be fair, computers are faster now, but also waste horrendous amounts of processing power on random nonsense.
gollark: "computer get better""computer get better, but not as faster better!!!!"
gollark: It's not Moore's law. That's transistor count, and is allegedly maybe continuing.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.