Rafael Muñoz (journalist)

Rafael F. Muñoz ( born May 1, 1899 in Chihuahua; † July 2, 1972 in Mexico City) was a Mexican writer.

Life

Rafael Felipe Muñoz was born on 1 May 1899 as the son of a wealthy farming family in northern Mexico. At the age of 16, he began his journalistic career as a reporter for a daily newspaper in Chihuahua. Here he had for the first time know to contact the Mexican revolutionaries and learned among other things, the revolutionary leader Pancho Villa.

Because of his sympathy for the rebels he had after the election Venustiano Carranza and the defeat of the troops of Pancho Villa in 1917 left the country and worked as a journalist in the U.S. Southwest. After the arrest of Carranza by General Álvaro Obregón in 1920, Muñoz returned to Mexico. In Mexico City, he studied journalism and wrote as a journalist for the daily newspaper El Heraldo, El Gráfico and El Universal, and later became chief of the daily newspaper El Nacional.

Rafael Muñoz became famous through his stories and novels that deal mainly with the Mexican Revolution. In 1928 he published his first collection of short stories titled El feroz cabecilla. In 1931 appeared in Spain his most famous novel, ¡ Vámonos con Pancho Villa! , Which was filmed four years later in Mexico.

Rafael Muñoz died on July 2, 1972 in Mexico City.

Works

Stories

• El feroz cabecilla. Cuentos de la Revolución en el Norte ( 1928)
• El hombre malo y otros Relatos (1930 )
• Si me han de matar mañana (1934 )

Novels

• ¡ Vámonos con Pancho Villa! (1931 )
• Bachimba (1934 )

German editions

• Forward with Pancho Villa! translated by George H. New Dorff. Müller, Leipzig 1935.