Sergio Pitol: Mexican politician and writer (1933-2018)
Sergio Pitol Deméneghi (18 March 1933 – 12 April 2018) was a Mexican writer, translator and diplomat.
In 2005 he received the Cervantes Prize. He was born in Puebla, Mexico. In the 1980s, he served as Ambassador to Czechoslovakia. He also served as a professor at the UNAM, at the Universidad Veracruzana in Xalapa, and at the University of Bristol in England.
Pitol died of complications from a stroke on 12 April 2018 in Xalapa, Mexico at the age of 85.
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Other websites
- CBC: Mexico's Sergio Pitol wins Cervantes lit prize
- (in Spanish) BBC Mundo: Cervantes para Sergio Pitol
- (in Spanish) Academia Mexicana de la Lengua Archived 2006-08-23 at the Wayback Machine
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