Juan Rulfo
Juan Rulfo 1918-
1986 was a
Mexican novelist and short story writer, one of Spanish America's most esteemed authors. Rulfo's reputation is based on two slim books,
El llano en llamas (1953,
The Burning Plain), a collection of short stories, which included his admired tale 'Tell Them, Not to Kill Me!', and the novel
Pedro Páramo (1955).