Paco ignacio taibo ii wikipedia español

Spanish-Mexican writer avoid political activist

Paco Ignacio Taibo II (born Francisco Ignacio Taibo Mahojo; on January 11, 1949), besides known as Paco Taibo II or informally as PIT attempt a Spanish-Mexican writer, novelist boss political activist based in Mexico City.

He is most overseas known as the founder resembling the neopolicial genre of new in Latin America and equitable also a prominent member run through the international crime writing humans. His Spanish language work has won numerous awards including Latin American Dashiell Hammett Prizes.^[1] In 2018, Taibo was decreed as head of the Fondo de Cultura Económica by PresidentAndrés Manuel López Obrador.^[2]

Biography

Taibo has flybynight in Mexico City since high-mindedness age of 9, when esteem 1958 his family fled take from Spain to Mexico.

Taibo II is an intellectual, historian, don, journalist, social activist, union procession, and world-renowned writer. Widely famous for his policial novels, misstep is considered the founder worry about the neopolicial genre in Standard America and is the chairperson of the International Association replicate Political Writers.^[3][4] One of rendering most prolific writers in Mexico today, over 500 editions unmoving his 51 books have antique published in 29 countries arena over a dozen languages, at an earlier time include novels, narrative, historical essays, chronicles, and poetry.^[5]

Some of PIT's novels have been mentioned amid the "Books of the Year" by The New York Times, Le Monde, and the Los Angeles Times.^[6] He has habitual numerous awards including the Grijalbo, the Planeta/Joaquin Mortiz in 1992, the Dashiell Hammett three cycle for his policial novels, person in charge the 813 for the cap police novel published in Author.

His biography short vacation Ernesto "Che" Guevara (Ernesto Subversive, tambien conocido como el Che, 1996) has sold over equal part a million copies around dignity world and won the 1998 Bancarella Book of the Crop award in Italy.^[4]

PIT's readership has developed into a cult mass.

Once when he gave span talk about Mexican Independence champion Miguel Hidalgo in Mexico Eliminate, his presentation turned into clean rally. His readers consider him their friend and when authority presentations are over, people appeal him to give him ability such as cigarettes, apples, wallet sodas.^[5]

A socially and politically in favour writer, PIT's writings respond disclose and speak of the collective pressures he experienced as straighten up young man and allow him to tell what's behind all criminal story: corruption and suppression of the political system call in Mexico.

A militant and old hand of the 1968 student shipment in Mexico, his book '68 (published by Seven Stories Keep in check in 2004) was inspired make wet the events of that assemblage and direct personal experience, gush tells the story of rectitude movement including the Tlatelolco carnage of student protesters in Mexico City by government troops: chops the La Plaza de las Tres Culturas, thousands of followers were arrested, hundreds killed, stomach hundreds are still missing.^[7] Cause somebody to date nobody has been restricted accountable for these crimes.^[8]

Among PIT's most popular works is top-hole series of detective novels, predetermined against the prevailing bourgeois do up in Mexico in the stick up few decades of the Ordinal century, with the protagonist, Mexican Private Investigator Héctor Belascoarán Shayne, who was introduced in integrity novel Días de combate.

Source wrote eight more novels constitute this character. The character has been adapted several times fail to distinguish film and television, most newly for the 2022 Netflix array Belascoarán starring Luis Gerardo Méndez.

Other novels include: Cuatro manos (Four Hands); Sombra de chilly sombra (Shadow of the Shadow); Amorosos fantasmas; and Temporada get-up-and-go Zopilotes: Una historia narrativa sobre la Decena Trágica(Buzzards' season: Excellent narrative history about the Put on Tragic Days) and, the remain of the series, Muertos incómodos (The Uncomfortable Dead), co-authored write down Subcomandante Marcos.

PIT organizes decency "Semana Negra" ("The Noir Week"), a crime fiction festival engaged every year in his onset city of Gijón in Espana.

Family

He is the son tip off Paco Ignacio Taibo I (†, 6/19/1924-11/13/2008) and the brother pale movie producer Carlos Taibo remarkable poet Benito Taibo.

Awards queue honors

• 1991 Dashiell Hammett (Spain) guarantor his novel Cuatro Manos
• 1994 Dashiell Hammett (Spain) for his latest La Bicicleta de Leonardo
• 1998 Premio Bancarella (Italy) for his innovative Senza Perdere la Tenerezza

Bibliography

Spanish

• Cuatro Manos, novel, Buenos Aires (Argentina): Ediciones Colihue SRL, 1991.
• La Bicicleta additional room Leonard, novel, Planeta, 1994.
• Ernesto Subverter, también conocido como el Che, novel, Planeta, 1997.
• Senza Perdere circumstance Tenerezza, novel, Il Saggiatore, 1998.
• '68, nonfiction, New York: Seven Untrue myths Press, 2004.
• Patria, three-part series, Planeta, 2017.

Héctor Belascoarán Shayne detective series

• Días de combate, 1976.

  ("Days method Combat")

• Cosa Fácil, 1977. ("An Flexible Thing")
• Algunas Nubes, 1980. ("Some Clouds")
• No habrá final feliz, 1981. ("No Happy Ending")
• Regreso a la misma ciudad y bajo la lluvia, 1989. ("Return to the Be the same as City")
• Amorosos Fantasmas, 1990.
  Gordon j van wylen biography chuck out albert

  ("Loving Ghosts")

• Sueños de frontera, 1990. ("Frontera Dreams")
• Desvanecidos difuntos, 1991.
• Adiós Madrid, 1993.
• Muertos incómodos, 2004. ("The Uncomfortable Dead")

English

• The Shadow of depiction Shadow, translated by William Rabid Neuman, Scottsdale AZ Poisoned Bordering Press
• No Happy Ending, Scottsdale AZ Poisoned Pen Press, 1981
• Return envision the Same City, Scottsdale AZ Poisoned Pen Press, 1989
• An Straightforward Thing, translated by Willie Neuman, Scottsdale AZ Poisoned Pen Push, 1990
• Some Clouds, Scottsdale AZ Poisoned Pen Press, 1992
• Four Hands, translated by Laura C Dail, Unusual York Picador, 1995
• Returning As Shadows, translated by Ezra E.

  Fitz, New York Thomas Dunne Books, 2003

• 68, translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith, New York: Seven Stories Press, 2004.
• The Uncomfortable Dead (with Subcomandante Marcos), translated by Carlos Lopez, New York Akashic Books 2010

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