Rafael Muñoz (writer)

Rafael Felipe Muñoz (born May 1, 1899 in Chihuahua , † July 2, 1972 in Mexico City ) was a Mexican writer.

Life

Rafael Felipe Muñoz was born on May 1st, 1899, into a wealthy farming family in northern Mexico. At the age of 16, he began his journalistic career as a reporter for a daily newspaper in Chihuahua. It was here that he had contact with the Mexican revolutionaries for the first time and met the revolutionary leader Pancho Villa , among others .

Because of his sympathy for the insurgents, he had to leave the country after the election of Venustiano Carranza and the suppression of Pancho Villa's troops in 1917 and worked as a journalist in the southwestern United States. After Carranza's arrest by General Álvaro Obregón in 1920, Muñoz returned to Mexico. In Mexico City he studied journalism and wrote as a journalist for the daily newspapers El Heraldo , El Grafico and El Universal and later became head of the daily newspaper El Nacional .

Rafael Muñoz became known for his stories and novels, which deal primarily with the Mexican Revolution . In 1928 he published his first volume of short stories entitled El feroz cabecilla . In 1931 his most famous novel, ¡Vámonos con Pancho Villa! Was published in Spain . , which was filmed four years later in Mexico.

Rafael Muñoz died in Mexico City on July 2, 1972.

Works

stories

• El feroz cabecilla. Cuentos de la Revolución en el Norte (1928)
• El hombre malo y otros relatos (1930)
• Si me han de matar mañana (1934)

Novels

• ¡Vámonos con Pancho Villa! (1931)
• Bachimba (1934)

German editions

• Forward with Pancho Villa! translated by Georg H. Neuendorff. Müller, Leipzig 1935.

Web links

• Literature by and about Rafael Muñoz in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Rafael Muñoz in the catalog of the Ibero-American Institute of Prussian Cultural Heritage, Berlin