Paco Ignacio Taibo II

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Paco Ignacio Taibo II (born Francisco Ignacio Taibo Mahojo in Gijón January 11, 1949 ) is a Mexican author.

Life

2014 in Bochum

Taibo, the son of the author and intellectual Paco Ignacio Taibo I (1924–2008), moved to Mexico in 1957 with his parents. There he studied literature, sociology and history. Before he could establish himself as an author, Taibo worked as a journalist, university lecturer and non-fiction author. He became politicized in the bloodily suppressed student movement of 1968. His reaction to the massacre was permanent opposition. Together with his wife Paloma, he is still connected to the protest movements in Mexico in solidarity.

Taibo II is considered to be the founder of the new Latin American crime novel, which combines the stylistic devices of the adventure novel, political thriller and crime fiction with overflowing imagination and often grim humor. He became known worldwide through the figure of the first deceased and then resurrected independent detective Héctor Belascoarán Shayne, who conducts investigations in the urban jungle of Mexico City that repeatedly lead him into a swamp of corruption and political repression. But he is also recognizable as an eminently political author. His crime novels often contain historical and political references. They are often set in politically explosive situations, such as in the chaotic 1920s in Mexico or in the run-up to the Spanish civil war , and they contain clear, often socially critical references to everyday life in Mexico.

As a historian he has u. a. distinguished by the biographies of Ernesto Che Guevara and Pancho Villa. In his work around Che Guevara , he rediscovered his stay in Africa, which is described in detail in The Year We Were Nowhere .

Taibo II is co-founder of the International Association of Crime Writers (AIEP) and organizer of the Semana Negra, an annual international crime festival in Gijón, Spain.

Works (selection of those translated into German)

  • 1976 Días de Combate (novel)
    • The time of the murderers , German by Gerhard Baumrucker; Munich: Goldmann 1981. ISBN 3-442-05222-X
  • 1977 Cosa fácil (novel)
  • 1981 No habrá final feliz (novel)
  • 1982 Heroes convocados: manual para la toma del poder
    • Heroes called. A manual for conquering power , German by Annette von Schönfeld; in: 1968 and Called Heroes. A handbook for conquering power , Hamburg: Verlag Libertäre Assoziation (today: Association A) 1997. ISBN 978-3-922611-63-9
  • 1985 Algunas Nubes
  • 1986 De Paso
  • 1986 Sombra de la sombra (novel)
    • The shadow of the shadow ; German from Harry Stürmer; Berlin, Hamburg: Association A 2010; ISBN 978-3-935936-63-7
  • 1987 La vida misma
    • The bizarre life , German by Kurt Scharf; Reinbek near Hamburg: Rowohlt 1990. ISBN 3-499-42940-3
  • 1988 Fantasmas nuestros de cada día
    • 1968 - Heroes called. A manual for conquering power , German by Annette von Schönfeld; Berlin: Libertarian Association 1997. ISBN 3-922611-63-X
  • 1988 Arcángeles
    • Archangel. Stories of 12 heretics of the 20th century revolution ; Hamburg: Libertarian Association (today Association A) 1999; ISBN 978-3-922611-77-6
  • 1989 Regreso a la misma ciudad y bajo la lluvia
    • Comeback for a dead man , by Thomas Brovot; Reinbek near Hamburg: Rowohlt 1991. ISBN 3-499-43019-3
  • 1989 Amorosos fantasmas
    • Phantoms in love , German by Thomas Brovot; in: The melancholy detective - three cases for Héctor Belascoarán Shayne , Reinbek near Hamburg: Rowohlt 1992. ISBN 3-499-43039-8
  • 1990 Cuatro manos
    • Four hands , German by Annette von Schönfeld; Berlin: Schwarze Risse / Rote Strasse 1996. ISBN 3-924737-25-8
  • 1990 Sueños de frontera
    • Grenzträume , German by Thomas Brovot; in: The melancholy detective - three cases for Héctor Belascoarán Shayne , Reinbek near Hamburg: Rowohlt 1992. ISBN 3-499-43039-8
  • 1991 68
    • 1968 , German by Annette von Schönfeld; in: 1968 and Called Heroes. A handbook for conquering power , Hamburg: Libertarian Association (today: Association A) 1997. ISBN 978-3-922611-63-9
  • 1991 Desvanecidos difuntos
    • Vanished Dreams , German by Thomas Brovot; in: The melancholy detective - three cases for Héctor Belascoarán Shayne , Reinbek near Hamburg: Rowohlt 1992. ISBN 3-499-43039-8
  • 1993 La bicicleta de Leonardo (novel)
    • The bicycle of Leonardo da Vinci , German by J. Alberts; Berlin: Eisbär 1997. ISBN 3-930057-15-8
  • 1995 El año que estuvimos en ninguna parte: La guerrilla africana de Ernesto Che Guevara, (with Froilán Escobar and Félix Guerra)
    • The year we were nowhere , German by Jens Andermann; Berlin, Amsterdam: Ed. ID archive 1996. ISBN 3-89408-054-X
  • 1996 Ernesto Guevara, también conocido como el Che
    • Che. The biography of Ernesto Guevara ; German by Horst Rosenberger and Andreas Löhrer; Hamburg: Nautilus 1997. ISBN 3-89401-277-3
  • 1998 Olga Forever (novel)
  • 2001 Retornamos como sombras (novel)
    • The Return of the Shadows ; German by Miriam Lang; Berlin, Hamburg, Göttingen: Association A 2004. ISBN 978-3-935936-31-6
  • 2005 Muertos incómodos (novel)
  • 2010 El retorno de los tigres de la Malasia
    • The Return of the Tigers from Malaysia ; German by Andreas Löhrer; Berlin: Association A 2012. ISBN 978-3862414123
  • Yaquis
    • The Yaqui: indigenous resistance and a forgotten genocide . Translation by Andreas Löhrer. Berlin: Association A, 2017 ISBN 978-3-86241-442-0

Awards

  • 1988: Premio Hammett for La vida misma
  • 1991: Premio Hammett for Cuatro manos
  • 1994: Premio Hammett for The Bicycle of Leonardo da Vinci

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personal data
SURNAME Taibo II, Paco Ignacio
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Taibo Mahojo, Francisco Ignacio (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hispanic-Mexican writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 11, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Gijón , Spain