The director of the Academia Mexicana de la Lengua (Mexican Academy of Language) talks about his latest book, a cross between "literary autobiography" and a tribute to the authors who shaped his thinking, such as Julio Cortázar, García Márquez and Juan Rulfo.

The first thing that Gonzalo Celorio (74 years old) sees when he wakes up is the vast night sky of Mexico City at his feet. By the time the sun begins to rise over the capital, he has already been writing for a couple of hours, settled in the office of his house on the slopes of Ajusco.

With that strict discipline it is not unusual that he has written a handful of novels and essays, that he has directed the Fondo de Cultura Economica (Fund for Economic Culture), and that he has been a professor of literature for 50 years. His latest book, “Mentideros de la memoria” (Tusquets, 2022), has just been released: a kind of autobiography based on stories, memories and anecdotes with the great Latin American authors who marked his life, personalities such as Julio Cortázar, Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Juan Rulfo.

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