Juan Nepomuceno Carlos Perez Rulfo Vizcaino, best known as Juan Rulfo, was a Mexican writer, screenwriter, and photographer.
13 Facts About Juan Rulfo
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Juan Rulfo is best known for two literary works, the 1955 novel Pedro Paramo, and the collection of short stories El Llano en llamas.
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Juan Rulfo was sent to study in the Luis Silva School, where he lived from 1928 to 1932.
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Juan Rulfo completed six years of elementary school and a special seventh year from which he graduated as a bookkeeper, though he never practiced that profession.
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Juan Rulfo attended a seminary from 1932 to 1934, but did not attend a university afterwards, as the University of Guadalajara was closed due to a strike and because Juan Rulfo had not taken preparatory school courses.
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Juan Rulfo moved to Mexico City, where he entered the National Military Academy, which he left after three months.
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Juan Rulfo then hoped to study law at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico.
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In 1936, Juan Rulfo was able to audit courses in literature at the University, because he obtained a job as an immigration file clerk through his uncle.
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Juan Rulfo obtained a fellowship at the Centro Mexicano de Escritores, supported by the Rockefeller Foundation.
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The Fundacion Juan Rulfo possesses fragments of two unfinished novels, La cordillera and Ozumacin.
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Juan Rulfo told interviewer Luis Harss that he had written and destroyed an earlier novel set in Mexico City.
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From 1954 to 1957, Juan Rulfo collaborated with "La comision del rio Papaloapan", a government institution working on socioeconomic development of the settlements along the Papaloapan River.
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Juan Rulfo noted that all of Rulfo's published writing, put together, "add up to no more than 300 pages; but that is almost as many and I believe they are as durable, as the pages that have come down to us from Sophocles".