Héctor Aguilar Camín

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Héctor Aguilar Camín (b. July 9, 1946 in Chetumal) is a Mexican writer, journalist and historian.

Aguilar Camín graduated from the Ibero-American University with a bachelor's degree in information sciences and techniques and received a doctorate's degree in history from El Colegio de México. In 1986 he received Mexico's Cultural Journalism National Award and three years later he received a scholarship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation while he was working as a researcher for the National Institute of Anthropology and History.

As a journalist, he has written for La Jornada (which he also co-edited), Unomásuno and several newspapers of the Grupo Reforma. He owns Nexos, one of the leading cultural magazines in the country, and currently hosts Zona abierta, weekly current-affairs show on national television.

He is remarried and has three sons.

[edit] Selected books

  • Morir en el golfo (1985, novel)
  • Historia gráfica de México (1989, with Lorenzo Meyer).
  • La guerra de Galio (1990, novel)
  • Las mujeres de Adriano (2002, novel)
  • Mandatos del corazón (2003, novel)

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