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Sergio Pitol Demeneghi (1933-2018) was one of Mexico's most influential and well-respected writers, born in the city of Puebla. He studied law and philosophy in Mexico City and spent many years as a cultural attach in Mexican embassies and consulates across the globe, including Poland, Hungary, Italy, and China. He is renowned for his intellectual career in both the field of literary creation and translation, with numerous novels, stories, criticisms, and translations to his name. Pitol is an influential contemporary of the most well-known authors of the Latin American ""Boom,"" and began publishing his works in the 1960s. In recognition of the importance of his entire canon of work, Pitol was awarded the two most important prizes in the Spanish language world: the Juan Rulfo Prize in 1999 (now known as the FIL Literary Award in Romance Languages) and the Cervantes Prize, the most prestigious Spanish-language literary prize, often called the ""Spanish language Nobel,"" in 2005. His trilogy of Memory andMephisto's Waltz are available from Deep Vellum in translation by George Henson.
""Pitol is not just our best living storyteller, he is also the strongest renovator of our literature."" —Álvaro Enrigue, author of Sudden Death ""One of Mexico’s most culturally complex and composite writers."" —Publishers Weekly ""Certainly the strangest, most unfathomable and eccentric. . . . His voice reverberates beyond the margins of his books."" —Valeria Luiselli, author of Faces in the Crowd ""Reading him, one has the impression . . . of being before the greatest Spanish-language writer of our time."" —Enrique Vila-Matas
