Homero AridjisHomero Aridjis is a poet and novelist. He was the founder of the environmentalist Grupo de los Cien and twice president of PEN International. He served as Mexico's ambassador to Switzerland, the Netherlands and Unesco. Many of his 48 books have been translated into 15 languages.
One afternoon in June 1962 Octavio Paz and I, until then only acquainted through letters, met at the studio of the painter Juan Soriano in Mexico City. From there we went walking down Paseo de la Reforma, and he told me he had just been appointed ambassador to India, Ceylon and Pakistan. He had accepted, reluctantly, because of the scant job opportunities in Mexico. Leaving one...
‘Mexican literature will be great because it’s literature, not because it’s Mexican,’ yelled Angel in Carlos Fuentes’s magnificent dystopia, Christopher Unborn. We...
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