He wrote for various newspapers and magazines such as “Punto de Partida”, “Hoja por Hoja” and “Excelsior.”

The Mexican writer, editor and essayist Roberto Zavala Ruiz, author of “El libro y sus orillas. Tipografía, originales, redacción, corrección de estilo y de pruebas” (The Book and its Edges: Typesetting, originals, drafting, proofreading and editing) died this Thursday and several students, colleagues and publishing guilds, have lamented the death of the teacher who for more than 40 years dedicated himself with passion to the production of books as a proofreader, editor and editorial coordinator.

The editor Tomás Granados bemoaned his death through his Twitter account: “Oh, Death! Now it came for Roberto Zavala Ruiz, author of El libro y sus orillas, the great blueprint of publishing. Thousands of apprentices benefitted from his knowledge in all the aspects of editing and publishing as the book’s subtitle indicates.

Granados wrote that "With a slow voice and spotless shirt, dark glasses so that misprints on the page would not know that he was looking for mistakes. Roberto possessed an old-fashioned but on-point humor", adding that "The book and its shores" is far from being a dry manual on the correct use of the language or a boring textbook.”

Read more: El Universal