    juan rulfo ( ; 16 may 1917) was a mexican writer, screenwriter and photographer. one of latin america's esteemed authors, rulfo's reputation rests on two slim books, the novel pedro pÃ¡ramo (1955), and el llano en llamas (1953), a collection of short stories. fifteen of these seventeen short stories have been translated into english and published as the burning plain and other stories. this collection includes his admired tale "Â¡diles que no me maten!" ("tell them not to kill me!"). the fundaciÃ³n juan rulfo, formed by the author's family after his death,http://www.clubcultura.com/clubliteratura/clubescritores/juanrulfo/fundacion.htm holds more than 6,000 negatives of his photographs. ==early life== rulfo was born in 1917 as juan nepomuceno carlos pÃ©rez rulfo vizcaÃ­no in apulco, jalisco (although he was registered at sayula, jalisco), in the home of his paternal grandfather. after 1937, rulfo's birth year was often listed as 1918, because he had provided an inaccurate date to get into the military academy that his uncle, david pÃ©rez rulfoâa colonel working for the governmentâdirected.  after his father was killed in 1923 and after his mother's death in 1927, his grandmother raised him in the town of san gabriel, jalisco. their extended family consisted of landowners whose fortunes were ruined by the mexican revolution and the cristero war of 1926-1928, a roman catholic integralist revolt against the government of mexico following the mexican revolution. rulfo's mother died from cardiac arrest in november 1927, when he was ten; his two uncles died a year later. juan rulfo had just been sent to study in the luis silva s
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