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Mexico writer Jose Emilio Pacheco 'critical' after fall Mexican writer Jose Emilio Pacheco 'stable' after fall
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Mexican novelist and poet Jose Emilio Pacheco, 74, is said to be in hospital in a critical condition after hurting his head in a fall, reports say. Mexican novelist and poet Jose Emilio Pacheco, 74, is in a "stable but poor condition" after hurting his head in a fall, his daughter says.
In 2009, he was awarded the Cervantes Prize, the highest literary honour in the Spanish-speaking world. Laura Emilia Pacheco added they were waiting for an update on his health from doctors treating him in hospital.
Pacheco is regarded as one of his country's foremost poets, and a leading representative of his generation. Earlier, local media reports said Pacheco was in intensive care and in a critical condition.
He is best-known for his accounts of adolescents growing up in a corrupt and unjust Mexico of the 1940s and 1950s. The writer is regarded as one of Mexico's foremost poets and a leading representative of his generation.
Late on Saturday, his daughter Laura Emilia Pacheco briefed reporters outside the Mexico City hospital where her father is. He was admitted to a Mexico City hospital on Saturday, from where his daughter briefed reporters.
"He is in poor health, he is stable and we are waiting," she said. "He is in poor health, he is stable and we are waiting (for news on his health)," she said.
Jose Emilio Pacheco has also translated works by Samuel Beckett, Tennessee Williams and TS Eliot and taught literature at universities in the US, UK and Canada, besides his work in Mexico. In 2009, Jose Emilio Pacheco was awarded the Cervantes Prize, the highest literary honour in the Spanish-speaking world.
He is best-known for his accounts of adolescents growing up in a corrupt and unjust Mexico in the 1940s and 1950s.
He has also translated works by Samuel Beckett, Tennessee Williams and TS Eliot. He has taught literature at universities in the US, UK and Canada, besides his work in Mexico.