Juan Rulfo
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| Born | Juan Nepomuceno Carlos Pérez Rulfo Vizcaíno 16 May 1917 Sayula, Jalisco, Mexico |
| Died | 7 January 1986 (aged 68) Mexico City, Mexico |
| Occupation | Writer, screenwriter, photographer |
| Nationality | Mexican |
| Notable works | El Llano en llamas, Pedro Páramo |
Juan Nepomuceno Carlos Pérez Rulfo Vizcaíno, best known as Juan Rulfo (Spanish: [ˈxwan ˈrulfo] 
audio ; 16 May 1917 – 7 January 1986), was a Mexican writer, screenwriter and photographer. He is best known for two literary works, El Llano en llamas (1953), a collection of short stories, and the 1955 novel Pedro Páramo. Fifteen of the seventeen short stories in El Llano en llamas have been translated into English and published as The Burning Plain and Other Stories. This collection includes the popular tale "¡Diles que no me maten!" ("Tell Them Not to Kill Me!").
The Juan Rulfo Foundation, which was established by Rulfo's family after his death, holds more than 6,000 negatives of his photographs.
Rulfo was born in 1917 in Apulco, Jalisco (although he was registered at Sayula, Jalisco), in the home of his paternal grandfather. Rulfo's birth year was often listed as 1918, because he had provided an inaccurate date to get into the military academy that his uncle, David Pérez Rulfo — a colonel working for the government — directed.
After his father was killed in 1923 and his mother died in 1927, Rulfo's grandmother raised him in the town of San Gabriel, Jalisco. Their extended family consisted of landowners whose fortunes were ruined by the Mexican Revolution and the Cristero War of 1926–1928, a Roman Catholic integralist revolt against the government of Mexico following the Mexican Revolution.
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