ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Juan Rulfo spent his childhood in an orphanage in Guadalajara. He later moved to Mexico City, where he worked as an auditor at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters. A great scholar of the culture and history of his country, a keen traveller and photography fan, Juan Rulfo needed to write just two books to establish himself as one of the giants of Spanish literature. With the publication of his book of short stories El llano en llamas, he became one of the most distinguished names in Mexican contemporary literature. His only novel, Pedro Páramo, was published in 1955. He had worked on it for more than a decade before its publication, and the work fully consolidated his reputation as one of the most significant authors in universal literature. Hailed as a landmark in magic realism, the work of Juan Rulfo feeds off both traditional Hispanic American narrative and the main innovators in Western literature such as Joyce, Faulkner and Woolf.