Homero Aridjis

Homero Aridjis was born in Contepec, in Michoacán, on 6 April 1940, to a Greek émigré father, Nicias Aridjis, and a Mexican mother. At the age of ten he badly injured himself with a rifle while hunting birds and became a reader, then a poet. In 1985 he founded the Group of One Hundred, an association of writers, artists and scientists that obtained protection for the forests where monarch butterflies spend the winter. Ambassador to the Netherlands, Switzerland and UNESCO, he was president of International PEN from 1997 to 2003.

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• Novel1492: The Life and Times of Juan Cabezón of Castile1492: Vida y tiempos de Juan Cabezón de CastillaHomero Aridjis · 1985Literature