Carlos Fuentes

Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes Macías (born November 11, 1928) is one of the best-known living novelists and essayists in the Spanish-speaking world. Fuentes has influenced contemporary Latin American literature, and his works have been widely translated into English and other languages.

Selected works

• Los días enmascarados (1954)
• La región más transparente (Where the Air Is Clear) (1959)
• La muerte de Artemio Cruz (The Death of Artemio Cruz) (1962)
• La nueva novela hispanoamericana (1969)
• Zona sagrada (Holy Place) (1967)
• Cambio de piel (A Change of Skin) (1967)
• Cumpleaños (Birthday) (1969)
• El tuerto es rey (1971)
• Diana o la cazadora solitaria (Diana, The Goddess Who Hunts Alone) (1972)
• Terra Nostra (1975)
• Agua quemada (Burnt Water) (1981)
• Orquídeas a la luz de la luna (1982)
• Gringo viejo (The Old Gringo) (1985)
• Cristóbal Nonato (Christopher Unborn) (1987)
• Ceremonias del alba (1991)
• El naranjo (The Orange Tree) (1993)
• La frontera de cristal (The Glass Border, often erroneously translated as The Crystal Frontier) (1995)
• Los años con Laura Díaz (The Years with Laura Díaz) (1999)
• En esto creo (2002)
• Contra Bush (2004)