Author

Books by Juan Rulfo

Juan Rulfo (1917–1986) was a Mexican novelist and short story writer whose literary output was small and whose influence was enormous. He published one story collection, El Llano en Llamas (1953), and one novel, Pedro Páramo (1955), and then produced almost no subsequent fiction despite living for another thirty years. He worked for most of his career at the Instituto Nacional Indigenista, documenting indigenous Mexican cultures through photography and writing. Gabriel García Márquez credited him as the primary influence on One Hundred Years of Solitude. He is considered one of the foundational figures of twentieth-century Latin American literature.