Hernan Lara Zavala

Hernán Lara Zavala (Hopelchén, 1946 - ) is a Mexican author, editor and professor. He studied a master in Letras Hispánicas at the UNAM, as well as "Estudios sobre la novela" in East Anglia University, England.

Lara 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.

"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. [1] (Merino, deputy secretary and Pascual deputy director of The Royal Spanish Academy)

In 2011, Lara has been awarded with the Justo Sierra Mendez medal.

Some works

• De Zitilchén, 1981.
• El mismo cielo, 1987; Premio Latinoamericano de Narrativa Colima.
• Las novelas en el Quijote, 1989.
• Despues del amor y otros cuentos, 1994; Premio José Fuentes Mares, 1994.
• Charras, 1995.
• Equipaje de mano, 1995.
• Cuentos escogidos, 1997.
• Viaje al corazón de la península, 1998.
• Amores que matan, 2005: article.
• Peninsula, Peninsula, 2008; a novel about the Caste War of the Yucatan.