Agustín Yáñez

Agustín Yáñez was born in Guadalajara on 4 May 1904. As a young man, he contributed to the magazine Bandera de Provincias, which translated Kafka and Joyce; a lawyer, he also studied philosophy and letters in Mexico City and taught. He was governor of Jalisco from 1953 to 1959, undersecretary to the presidency from 1962 to 1964, and Minister of Public Education from 1964 to 1970. He received the National Prize for Literature in 1973 and died in Mexico City on 17 January 1980.

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• NovelThe Edge of the StormAl filo del aguaAgustín Yáñez · 1947Literature