Carlos Fuentes Macías (November 11, 1928 – May 15, 2012) was a Mexican novelist and essayist. Among his works are The Death of Artemio Cruz (1962), Aura (1962), Terra Nostra (1975), The Old Gringo (1985) and Christopher Unborn (1987). In his obituary, The New York Times described Fuentes as 'one of the most admired writers in the Spanish-speaking world' and an important influence on the Latin American Boom, the 'explosion of Latin American literature in the 1960s and '70s', while The Guardian called him 'Mexico's most celebrated novelist'.
Sebastian Doggart is an English and American television producer, director, writer, journalist, translator, cinematographer and human rights activist. He has had three books published including Latin American Plays, the others include Fire Blood and the Alphabet: One Hundred Years of Lorca, which focused on Spanish playwright and poet, Federico García Lorca, and his third book is on the Argentine economy.
