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Mexican writer, activist, journalist, and ambassador

Homero Aridjis (born April 6, ) is a Mexican poet, novelist, environmental activist, journalist, and former ambassador and ex-president of PEN International.

Family and early life

Aridjis was born in Contepec, Michoacán, Mexico, on April 6, , to a Greek father and a Mexican mother; he was the youngest of five brothers. His father fought in the Greek army during World War I and the Greco-Turkish War, when his family was forced to flee from their home in Tire, southeast of Smyrna, in Asia Minor.

His mother grew up in Contepec amidst the turmoil of the Mexican Revolution.

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After nearly losing his life at age ten in a shotgun accident, Aridjis became an avid reader and began to write poetry. In he was awarded a scholarship at the Rockefeller Foundation-supported Mexico City Writing Center (Centro Mexicano de Escritores), the youngest writer to have received the award in the center's year history.

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