José Emilio Pacheco, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

José Emilio Pacheco

Mexican writer

Date of Birth: 30-Jun-1939

Place of Birth: Mexico City, Mexico

Date of Death: 26-Jan-2014

Profession: screenwriter, writer, poet, singer, translator, literary critic, novelist, essayist

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

José Emilio Pacheco Berny audio (June 30, 1939 – January 26, 2014) was a Mexican poet, essayist, novelist and short story writer.
He is regarded as one of the major Mexican poets of the second half of the 20th century.
The Berlin International Literature Festival has praised him as "one of the most significant contemporary Latin American poets".
In 2009 he was awarded the Cervantes Prize for his literary oeuvre.He taught at UNAM, as well as the University of Maryland, College Park, the University of Essex, and many others in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. He died aged 74 in 2014 after suffering a cardiac arrest.