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Mexican writer Jose Emilio Pacheco dies after fall | |
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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, his daughter, said he died "very peacefully" after suffering a heart attack. | |
In 2009, Pacheco was awarded the Cervantes Prize, the highest literary honour in the Spanish-speaking world. | |
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. | |
"With great regret, I have to tell you that my father died," his daughter told journalists at the Mexico City hospital where he died. | |
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. | |
He is seen as one of Mexico's foremost poets and a leading representative of his generation. | |
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. | |