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Mexican writer Jose Emilio Pacheco 'stable' 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. | |
Laura Emilia Pacheco added they were waiting for an update on his health from doctors treating him in hospital. | |
Earlier, local media reports said Pacheco was in intensive care and in a critical condition. | |
The writer is regarded as one of Mexico's foremost poets and a leading representative of his generation. | |
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 (for news on his health)," she said. | |
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. |