Paco Ignacio Taibo I (19 July 1924 in
Gijón
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Asturias
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– 13 November 2008 in Mexico City), was a prolific
Spanish
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Mexican writer and journalist.
Life
His birth name Francisco Ignacio Taibo Lavilla González Nava Suárez Vich Manjón.
He was the director and founder of the cultural section of ''
El Universal''.
On November 13, 2008, at age 84, Paco Ignacio Taibo I died in Mexico City from
pneumonia
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.
He is the father of writer
Paco Ignacio Taibo II, movie producer
Carlos Taibo, and writer and poet Benito Taibo.
Novels
*''Juan M. N.'' (1955)
*''Fuga, hierro y fuego'' (1979)
*''Para parar las aguas del olvido'' (autobiographical narrative, 1982)
*''Siempre Dolores'' (1984)
*''Pálidas Banderas'' (1989)
*''Flor de la tontería'' (1997)
*''Tres tuertos en el agua'' (unpublished)
Plays
*''El juglar y la cama'' (1966)
*''La quinta parte de un arcángel'' (1967)
*''Los cazadores'' (1967)
*''Morir del todo'' (1983)
Essays
*''Historia popular del cine''
*''El cine por mis pistolas''
*''El Indio Fernández''
*''María Félix, La Doña''
*''El libro de todos los moles''
*''La Risa Loca (Enciclopedia del cine cómico)''
*''Breviario de la Fabada''
Journalism
*''Ocurrencias''
*''Notas de viaje''
*''El hombre sin corbata y otras fabulaciones''
References
1924 births
2008 deaths
People from Gijón
Mexican male writers
Spanish emigrants to Mexico
Deaths from pneumonia in Mexico
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