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Homero Aridjis

Homero Aridjis was born in Contepec, Michoacán, Mexico, in 1940. One of Latin America's most prominent writers and eco-activists, Aridjis was the founder of the Group of 100. He has served as president of PEN International (1997–2003) and as Mexico's ambassador to Switzerland, The Netherlands, and UNESCO. His latest publications include Solar Poems (2010), Los Invisibles (2010), Diario de sueños (2011), Los perros del fin del mundo (2012), Tiempo de ángeles/A Time of Angels (2012), and, with Betty Ferber, Noticias de la Tierra (2012)

Betty Ferber

Betty Ferber has translated three novels by Homero Aridjis. With poet George McWhirter she co-edited Eyes to See Otherwise: Selected Poems of Homero Aridjis (2002). As International Coordinator of the Group of 100, she shared the Mikhail Gorbachev/Green Cross Millennium Award for International Environmental Leadership with Aridjis