Juan Rulfo

Juan Rulfo was born on 16 May 1917, registered at Sayula, in Jalisco. His father was killed in 1923, his mother died in 1927, and the child was placed in a boarding school in Guadalajara. A strike at the university pushed him towards Mexico City, where he took literature courses; he travelled widely across the country and became a photographer, leaving more than six thousand negatives. He devoted his last twenty years to the publications of the National Indigenist Institute. He died in Mexico City on 7 January 1986.

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• NovelPedro PáramoJuan Rulfo · 1955Literature