Sergio Pitol
Mexican politician and writer (1933–2018)
Sergio Pitol Deméneghi (18 March 1933 – 12 April 2018) was a Mexican writer, translator and diplomat. In 2005 he received the Cervantes Prize. He was born in Puebla, Mexico.[1] In the 1980s, he served as Ambassador to Czechoslovakia.[2] He also served as a professor at the UNAM, at the Universidad Veracruzana in Xalapa, and at the University of Bristol in England.
Pitol died of complications from a stroke on 12 April 2018 in Xalapa, Mexico at the age of 85.[3]
References
change- ↑ "Discurso Sergio Pitol, Premio Cervantes 2005 - RTVE.es". RTVE.es (in European Spanish). Retrieved 2015-11-13.
- ↑ "Sergio Pitol Papers (C1283) -- Sergio Pitol Papers". findingaids.princeton.edu. Retrieved 2015-11-13.
- ↑ Muere el escritor mexicano Sergio Pitol a los 85 años (in Spanish)
Other websites
change- CBC: Mexico's Sergio Pitol wins Cervantes lit prize
- (in Spanish) BBC Mundo: Cervantes para Sergio Pitol
- (in Spanish) Academia Mexicana de la Lengua Archived 2006-08-23 at the Wayback Machine
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