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Mariano Azuela

Died in 1952

Mariano Azuela was born on 1 January 1873 in Lagos de Moreno, in Jalisco, and studied medicine. During the revolution, he followed as a doctor the troops of Julián Medina, a supporter of Pancho Villa, then, after the retreat of the Villistas, made his way to El Paso, Texas. Back in Mexico City in 1917, he practised medicine there while writing more than twenty novels. A founding member of the Colegio Nacional in 1943, he received the National Prize for Arts and Sciences in 1949 and died in Mexico City on 1 March 1952.

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