The author of 'Noticias del Imperio’ (News from the Empire) was awarded the Cervantes Prize in 2015

Fernando del Paso died Wednesday at the age of 83 in his home in Guadalajara, the city where he settled down with his family in 1992, after more than two decades of a diplomatic career between London and Paris. The last Mexican Cervantes Award, 2015, transformed the paradigm of the historical novel with works such as Palinuro de México and Noticias del Imperio, where he draws a literary cartography of his country with the setsquares of cosmopolitanism and avant-garde. An heir of the totems within Mexican literature such as Juan Rulfo and Juan José Arreola, he was literally their student during the sixties at the Mexican Writers' Center. From that formidable incubator – a seed from the Generation of the Middle Century, shared with Salvador Elizondo and José Emilio Pacheco – came out his first great novel, José Trigo, a ghostly search related to both Pedro Páramo by his teacher, and by Joyce's Ulysses. As he defined himself on more than one occasion: "I am part of the tail of the boom."

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