El Padre Amaro/Father Amaro

by Vicente Leñero

127 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1862

About the author

Novelist, journalist, and playwright. He has written numerous books, stories, and plays, including a theatrical adaptation of Oscar Lewis's The Children of Sanchez. He was awarded the Premio Xavier Villaurrutia in 2001, and the following year he received the Premio Nacional de Ciencias y Artes de México (National Prize of Arts and Sciences) for literature and linguistics.