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Mexican writer Jose Emilio Pacheco 'stable' after fall Mexican writer Jose Emilio Pacheco dies after fall
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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. Mexican novelist and poet Jose Emilio Pacheco has died at the age of 74, a day after hurting his head in a fall.
Laura Emilia Pacheco added they were waiting for an update on his health from doctors treating him in hospital. Laura Emilia Pacheco, his daughter, said he died "very peacefully" after suffering a heart attack.
Earlier, local media reports said Pacheco was in intensive care and in a critical condition. In 2009, Pacheco was awarded the Cervantes Prize, the highest literary honour in the Spanish-speaking world.
The writer is regarded as one of Mexico's foremost poets and a leading representative of his generation. The BBC's Juan Carlos Perez Salazar in Mexico says the writer was especially loved in his country where he was regarded as humble and unpretentious.
He was admitted to a Mexico City hospital on Saturday, from where his daughter briefed reporters. "With great regret, I have to tell you that my father died," his daughter told journalists at the Mexico City hospital where he died.
"He is in poor health, he is stable and we are waiting (for news on his health)," she said. Jose Emilio Pacheco was born in Mexico City in 1939, and is best-known for his accounts of adolescents growing up in a corrupt and unjust Mexico in the 1940s and 1950s.
In 2009, Jose Emilio Pacheco was awarded the Cervantes Prize, the highest literary honour in the Spanish-speaking world. He is seen as one of Mexico's foremost poets and a leading representative of his generation.
He is best-known for his accounts of adolescents growing up in a corrupt and unjust Mexico in the 1940s and 1950s. He 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.
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.