Juan Rulfo

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Strong and characterful portrait of a writer I didn't know about until your posting today.

Thanks Robert Jones...my pleasure....

AUTHORS OF THE WORLD....JUAN [HUAN] RULFO....WATERCOLOUR....uan Rulfo (Spanish: [ˈxwan ˈrulfo]; 16 May 1917 – 7 January 1986) was a Mexican writer, screenwriter and photographer. One of Latin America's most esteemed authors, Rulfo's reputation rests on two slim books, the novel Pedro Páramo (1955), and El Llano en llamas (1953), a collection of short stories. Fifteen of these seventeen short stories have been translated into English and published as The Burning Plain and Other Stories. This collection, includes his admired tale "¡Diles que no me maten!" ("Tell Them Not to Kill Me!"). Rulfo was born as Juan Nepomuceno Carlos Pérez Rulfo Vizcaíno in Apulco, Jalisco (although he was registered at Sayula, Jalisco), in the home of his paternal grandfather. After his father was killed in 1923 and after his mother's death in 1927, his grandmother raised him in the town of San Gabriel, Jalisco. Their extended family consisted of landowners whose fortunes were ruined by the Mexican Revolution and the Cristero War of 1926-1928, a Roman Catholic integralist revolt against the government of Mexico following the Mexican Revolution. The first book was a collection of harshly realistic short stories titled El Llano en llamas (1953). The stories centered around life in rural Mexico around the time of the Mexican Revolution and the Cristero Rebellion. Among the best-known stories are "¡Diles que no me maten!" ("Tell Them Not To Kill Me!"), about an old man, set to be executed, captured by orders of a colonel who happens to be the son of a man he killed about forty years ago; and "No oyes ladrar los perros" ("You Don't Hear the Dogs Barking"), about a man carrying his estranged, adult, wounded son on his back to find a doctor. From 1954 to 1957, Juan Rulfo collaborated with "La comisión del rio Papaloapan", a government institution in charge of helping the socioeconomic development of the settlements along the Papaloapan River and from 1962 until his death in 1986, he wo