Juan Rulfo

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Juan Rulfo was a Mexican writer and photographer whose sparse yet powerful works, especially the novel "Pedro Páramo" and the story collection "El Llano en llamas," profoundly influenced 20th-century Latin American literature.

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Juan Rulfo canonical 4
Rulfo 1

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instanceOf Mexican writer
human
photographer
awardReceived Premio Nacional de Letras de México
Premio Xavier Villaurrutia
burialPlace Panteón Español, Mexico City
causeOfDeath lung disease
countryOfCitizenship Mexico
dateOfBirth 1917-05-16
dateOfDeath 1986-01-07
employer Goodrich-Euzkadi
Instituto Nacional Indigenista
familyName Rulfo
linked to: Juan Rulfo
fieldOfWork literature
photography
fullName Juan Nepomuceno Carlos Pérez Rulfo Vizcaíno
genre fiction
magic realism
short story
givenName Juan
hasSignatureWorkStatus Pedro Páramo is considered his masterpiece
linked to: Pedro Páramo
influenced Carlos Fuentes
Gabriel García Márquez
Latin American literature
Mario Vargas Llosa
influentialIn 20th-century Latin American literature
languageOfWorkOrName Spanish
movement Latin American Boom precursor
notableFor depiction of rural Mexico
sparse and powerful prose style
notableWork El Llano en llamas
Pedro Páramo
numberOfChildren 4
occupation novelist
photographer
screenwriter
short story writer
photographicSubject indigenous communities in Mexico
rural Mexican landscapes
placeOfBirth Apulco, Jalisco, Mexico
placeOfDeath Mexico City, Mexico
linked to: Mexico City
publicationYearOfWork El Llano en llamas, 1953
Pedro Páramo, 1955
linked to: Pedro Páramo
setWorkIn post-Revolutionary Mexico
linked to: Mexican Revolution

rural Jalisco
spouse Clara Aparicio
wrote El Llano en llamas
El gallo de oro
Pedro Páramo

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Juan Rulfo familyName Rulfo
linked to: Juan Rulfo
Pedro Páramo author Juan Rulfo