Awards & Winners

Sergio Pitol

Date of Birth 18-March-1933
Place of Birth Puebla
(Mexico)
Nationality Mexico
Also know as Sergio Pitol Demeneghi, Sergio Pitol Deméneghi
Profession Novelist, Writer, Translator, Diplomat
Sergio Pitol Demeneghi is a prominent Mexican writer, translator and diplomat. In 2005 he received the Cervantes Prize, the most prestigious literary award in the Spanish-speaking world. Pitol studied law and literature and served in the Mexican foreign service at Rome, Belgrade, Warsaw, Paris, Beijing, Moscow, Budapest and Barcelona. He started publishing novels in the late 1960s. He's been an advocate of human rights in Mexico and a critic of political orientations that place the state above the human beings.

Awards by Sergio Pitol

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