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Homero Aridjis

Writer, former ambassador, and environmental activist Homero Aridjis was born on April 6, 1940, in Contepec, Mexico, a small town in Michoacán state. He is the youngest of five sons. During the Mexican Revolution, Aridjis’s mother, Josefina Fuentes, narrowly eluded abduction by bandits when she was eight. His father, Nicias Aridjis, was a former captain in the Greek army. Nicias escaped from Smyrna shortly before Turkish soldiers ransacked the city, massacred local Greeks and Armenians, and set fire to the area. Aridjis later wrote about his father’s experiences in his 2021 novel, Smyrna in Flames (Mandel Vilar Press). In January 1951, Aridjis survived a gunshot wound to the stomach that he accidentally inflicted on himself after finding and playing with an older brother’s shotgun. Aridjis has characterized this incident as “a contradictory gift from Providence.” As a result, he stopped playing soccer and learned to play chess. At age thirteen, Aridjis tied with Michoacán’s chess champion and was encouraged to pursue a career in the game. Aridjis als

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Homer

Author of the Iliad and the Odyssey

Several terms redirect here. For other uses, see Homer (disambiguation), Homerus (disambiguation), and Homeric (disambiguation).

Homer^[a] (possibly born c. 8th century BCE) may have been an Ancient Greek poet who authored the Iliad and the Odyssey, two epic poems that are foundational works of ancient Greek literature. Despite doubts about his authorship, Homer is considered one of the most revered and influential authors in history.^[2]

The Iliad centers on a quarrel between King Agamemnon and the warrior Achilles during the last year of the Trojan War. The Odyssey chronicles the ten-year journey of Odysseus, king of Ithaca, back to his home after the fall of Troy. The epics depict man's struggle, the Odyssey especially so, as Odysseus perseveres through punishment of the gods.^[3] The poems are in Homeric Greek, also known as Epic Greek, a literary language which shows a mixture of features of the Ionic and Aeolic dialects from different centuries; the predominant influe

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Homero Aridjis

Mexican writer, activist, journalist, and ambassador

Homero Aridjis (born April 6, 1940) is a Mexican poet, novelist, environmental activist, journalist, and former ambassador and ex-president of PEN International.

Family and early life

Aridjis was born in Contepec, Michoacán, Mexico, on April 6, 1940, to a Greek father and a Mexican mother; he was the youngest of five brothers. His father fought in the Greek army during World War I and the Greco-Turkish War, when his family was forced to flee from their home in Tire, southeast of Smyrna, in Asia Minor. His mother grew up in Contepec amidst the turmoil of the Mexican Revolution. After nearly losing his life at age ten in a shotgun accident, Aridjis became an avid reader and began to write poetry. In 1959 he was awarded a scholarship at the Rockefeller Foundation-supported Mexico City Writing Center (Centro Mexicano de Escritores), the youngest writer to have received the award in the center's 55-year history.

Aridjis has published 51 books of poetry and prose, many of them translated into a dozen