MEXICO CITY (AP) — Jose Emilio Pacheco, widely regarded as one of Mexico's foremost poets and short story writers, died Sunday at age 74, the country's National Council for Culture and the Arts announced on its official Twitter account.
President Enrique Pena Nieto also mourned Pacheco with his own tweet after Pacheco's daughter confirmed the death to local journalists.
The poet, novelist, journalist, essayist and literary critic came to be seen as a leading representative of the generation of Mexican writers that came of age in the late 1950s and 1960s.
He was best known for bittersweet accounts of adolescents growing up in a less crowded, but corrupt and unjust Mexico of the 1940s and '50s.
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