User:Ramiro padilla

Ramiro Padilla Atondo is a mexican writer best known for his work about immigrants, mixing dirty realism and magic realism. Ramiro Padilla was born in Ensenada Mexico from Ramiro Padilla Reynoso, an english teacher and Fabiola Atondo Lopez, wich he recalls as  his biggest literary influence.

Early days

Second among five brothers, Ramiro started writing songs and poems at an early age. The first one known, talks about the death of his grandmother. One of the biggest events of is life, took place when his mother decided to buy an encyclopedia. Ramiro became a compulsive reader thanks to his bad behavior and the fact that the encyclopedia was in the room he was punished in. At age 13, Ramiro read hundred years of solitude, from Gabriel García Márquez wish make him want to be a writer. He describe this event as an astonishing one, mix of delightment and delusion, knowing that he not be capable of such of a great book. He discovered Mario Vargas Llosa at age 15 and became a great fan. Ramiro consider his self as a big fan of the latin american boom, reading books of Borges, Cortázar, and Alejo Carpentier.

First Book.

After finishing a short novel called "Winds of San Juan", talking about the life of an immigrant going back to his home town, Ramiro decided to write a book that reflected life of the immigrants in all aspects, looking for the other side, the side that nobody talks about, the suffering and the culture shock that the immigrant faces when coming to a different country. The book called "Three Steps from the border" received immediate attention from radio stations and newspapers among the border, calling it "a serious, reflective work that goes to the roots of the immigrant spirit", mixing his now known techniques of monologue, dirty realism  and magic realism with a touch of northern literature.

Second book

Ramiro is presenting his second book in July 2 in the center for the arts in Ensenada B. C. The name of the book is "Waiting for death and other stories" centered in his family history and also in the problems the border faces, such as drug adictions and the problems coming with drug trafficking,  like kidnapping from a plural point of view.