Carlos Fuentes

Carlos Fuentes was born on Nov 11, 1928 in Panama. Carlos Fuentes's big-screen debut came with The Golden Cockerel directed by Roberto Gavaldón in 1964. Carlos Fuentes is known for Time to Die directed by Arturo Ripstein, Marga López stars as Mariana Sampedro and Jorge Martínez de Hoyos as Juan Sayago. The upcoming new movie Carlos Fuentes plays is Time to Die which will be released on Sep 15, 2017.

Carlos Fuentes was a Mexican writer, author of drama and some horror books. He was the son of a Mexican career diplomat, Fuentes was born in Panama and traveled extensively with his family in North and South America and in Europe. He learned English at age four in Washington, D.C. As a young man, he studied law at the University of Mexico in Mexico City and later attended the Institute of Advanced International Studies in Geneva. Fuentes was a member of the Mexican delegation to the International Labour Organization (ILO) in Geneva (1950-1952), was in charge of cultural dissemination for the University of Mexico (1955-1956), was cultural officer of the ministry (1957-1959), and was ambassador to France (1975-1977). He also cofounded and edited several periodicals, including Revista Mexicana de literatura (1954-1958; "Mexican Review of Literature"). The novel Las buenas conciencias (1959; The Good Conscience) emphasizes the moral compromises that mark the transition from a rural economy to a complex middle-class urban one. Aura (1962) is a novella that successfully fuses reality and fantasy. La muerte de Artemio Cruz (1962; The Death of Artemio Cruz), which presents the agony of the last hours of a wealthy survivor of the Mexican Revolution, was translated into several languages and established Fuentes as a major international novelist. After Artemio Cruz came a succession of novels. Cambio de piel (1967; A Change of Skin) defines existentially a collective Mexican consciousness by exploring and reinterpreting the country's myths. Terra nostra (1975; "Our Land," Eng. trans. Terra nostra) explores the cultural substrata of New and Old Worlds as the author, using Jungian archetypal symbolism, seeks to understand his cultural heritage. Diana; o, la cazadora solitaria (1994; Diana the Goddess Who Hunts Alone) is a fictional version of Fuentes's affair with the American actress Jean Seberg. In 1995 he published La frontera de cristal: una novela en nueve cuentos (The Crystal Frontier: A Novel in Nine Stories), a tale of nine lives as they are affected by a powerful and unscrupulous man. Among Fuentes's other works of fiction are La cabeza de la hidra (1978; The Hydra Head), Una familia lejana (1980; Distant Relations), Gringo viejo (1985; The Old Gringo; film 1989), Cristóbal nonato (1987; Christopher Unborn), Los años con Laura Díaz (1999; The Years with Laura Díaz), Instinto de Inez (2001; Inez), and La voluntad y la fortuna (2008; "Will and Fortune"). Fuentes also published collections of stories, including Constancia, y otras novelas para vírgenes (1989; Constancia and Other Stories for Virgins), El naranjo; o, los círculos del tiempo (1993; "The Orange Tree; or, The Circles of Time," Eng. trans. The Orange Tree), Inquieta compañía (2004; "Disturbing Company"), and Todas las familias felices (2006; Happy Families: Stories).