“Carlos Fuentes has died to be loved even more

May he rest in peace.”

Those were the words of Mexican President Felipe Calderon at the ceremony following Carlos Fuentes’s death yesterday at age 83. A major player in Latin American literature, Fuentes wrote prolifically. USAToday said, “He remained a workhorse until the end, keeping a disciplined writing routine that allowed him to finish novel after novel, with time left over to weigh in on current affairs.”

My personal Fuentes favorite is, of course, This I Believe: An A to Z of a Life.  He described it as the various kinds of love contained in his personal alphabet.  It starts at Amore and ends at Zurich.