Carlos Fuentes, Mexican Author With Global Fans, Dies at 83
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Carlos Fuentes, one of the generation of writers who brought modern Latin American fiction onto the world stage, died today in a Mexico City hospital. He was 83.
His death was related to a heart condition, the press office of the National Council for Arts and Culture said. The recipient of awards including the Miguel de Cervantes Prize and Mexico’s National Prize in Literature, Fuentes had a following among Latin American authors surpassed only by Colombia’s Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Peru’s Mario Vargas Llosa though unlike his contemporaries he never won a Nobel Prize.