My father was a great educator for me. He taught me so many things. He named me Carlos after a brother he lost — a very brilliant young man who died at 21 in Mexico. He had written very good poems. He was an intellectual. I think my father wanted to see his brother in me, so he put books into my hands at a very early age. He fostered my literary and artistic inclinations. So he was my best teacher.
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Carlos Fuentes
Novelist and essayist; Mexico's ambassador to France
Mexico · 1928–2012
Arts and letters
Mexican novelist and essayist, author of The Death of Artemio Cruz, Aura and Terra Nostra, and Mexico's ambassador to France in the 1970s.
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