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Sergio Pitol

Died in 2018

Sergio Pitol was born in Puebla on 18 March 1933, into a family of Italian origin. Orphaned at an early age, he grew up with his grandmother in Potrero, in Veracruz, and discovered reading during long years of malaria. After studying law and literature at the national university, he joined the foreign service in 1960: cultural attaché in Paris, Warsaw, Budapest and Moscow, then ambassador to Czechoslovakia. He translated Austen, Conrad, James, Gombrowicz and Chekhov, received the Cervantes Prize in 2005 and died in Xalapa on 12 April 2018.

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