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The Most Famous

WRITERS from Panama

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This page contains a list of the greatest Panamanian Writers. The pantheon dataset contains 5,755 Writers, 1 of which were born in Panama. This makes Panama the birth place of the 122nd most number of Writers behind Zambia and Guatemala.

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The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Panamanian Writers of all time. This list of famous Panamanian Writers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.

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1. Carlos Fuentes (1928 - 2012)

With an HPI of 63.80, Carlos Fuentes is the most famous Panamanian Writer.  His biography has been translated into 63 different languages on wikipedia.

Carlos Fuentes Macías (; Spanish: [ˈkaɾlos ˈfwentes] ; November 11, 1928 – May 15, 2012) was a Mexican novelist and essayist. Among his works are The Death of Artemio Cruz (1962), Aura (1962), Terra Nostra (1975), The Old Gringo (1985) and Christopher Unborn (1987). In his obituary, The New York Times described Fuentes as "one of the most admired writers in the Spanish-speaking world" and an important influence on the Latin American Boom, the "explosion of Latin American literature in the 1960s and '70s", while The Guardian called him "Mexico's most celebrated novelist". His many literary honors include the Miguel de Cervantes Prize as well as Mexico's highest award, the Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor (1999). He was often named as a likely candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature, though he never won.

Pantheon has 1 people classified as writers born between 1928 and 1928. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased writers include Carlos Fuentes.

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