Carlos Fuentes dies.

The writer and polemicist Carlos Fuentes, who has died aged 83, published more than 60 works, including novels, short stories, essaysand plays, in a career that spanned six decades. His 1985 novel El Gringo Viejo (The Old Gringo) was the first Mexican book to figure in the New York Times bestseller list, and four years later was made into aHollywood film starring Gregory Peck and Jane Fonda, while his fictionalised account of his love affair with the movie star Jean Seberg surfaced in Diana, O la Cazadora Solitaria (Diana: The Goddess Who Hunts Alone, 1994).