Germán Dehesa


Germán Dehesa was a Mexican journalist, academic and writer.
Dehesa was born in Mexico City on July 1, 1944. He studied both Hispanic literature and chemical engineering at the National Autonomous University of Mexico.
Dehesa wrote six plays and eleven books during his career. His works included Fallaste, Corazon!, Los PRIsidentes and Las Nuevas Aventuras de El Principito. He taught as a professor at the National Autonomous University of Mexico for 25 years. In May 2008, Dehesa was awarded the Don Quixote Prize by the government of Castile-La Mancha in Spain for his article Ah, Que Tiempos!.
Dehesa died at his home in Mexico City on September 2, 2010, at the age of 66. He had published his last newspaper column, Gaceta del Angel, in the Reforma newspaper days before his death.

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