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'''Hernán Lara Zavala''' (1946 - ) is a [[Mexican]] author, editor and professor. He has been awarded the 2010 Royal Academy of the Spanish Language prize. His novel “Peninsula, Peninsula” was honored in 2009 with the Elena Poniatowska Ibero-American Prize.
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"It is an admirable, splendid novel" that analyzes "without Manicheisms" the Caste War, Jose Maria Merino said, while for Jose Antonio Pascual, "Peninsula, Peninsula" is the novel he would love to have written. [http://www.laprensasa.com/2.0/3/309/938409/America-in-English/Mexico-s-Hernan-Lara-Zavala-receives-Spanish-lit-prize.html] (Merino, deputy secretary and Pascual deputy director of The Royal Spanish Academy)
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In 2011, Lara has been awarded with the [[Justo Sierra Mendez]] medal.
== Some works ==
* El mismo cielo, 1987.
* Despues del amor: Y otros cuentos, 1994.
* Charras, 1995.
* Cuentos escogidos, 1997.
* Amores que matan, 2005: article.
* Peninsula, Peninsula, 2008; a novel about the Caste War of the Yucatan.
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