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Carballido Emilio Biography

Mexican writer, best known as a playwright, who belonged to the group of writers called Generación de los 50, alongside such figures as Sergio Magaña, Luisa Josefina Hernández, Rosario Castellanos, Jaime Sabines, and Sergio Galindo. In addition to more than a hundred plays and scripts, he also wrote two volumes of short stories and nine novels, and worked randomly as a stage director. In 1972 he received two Ariels for the storyline and script of Alfonso Araus El Águila Descalza. On 27 May 2002 he was given the Ariel de Oro for his lifetime achievements which include more than 50 films, remarkably his collaboration in Luis Buñuels Nazarín (1959). On 16 March 2007, Carballido and his partner of 20 years, Héctor Herrera, were among the first couples to apply for a civil union following the enactment of the Federal Districts 2006 Ley de Sociedad de Convivencia. Carbadillo died of a heart attack on 11 February 2008 in Xalapa. Link to Wikipedia biography Read less