Juan Villoro

Juan Villoro
Juan Villoro in Mexico City, January 2009
Born
Juan Antonio Villoro Ruiz

(1956-09-24) 24 September 1956 (age 68)
Mexico City, Mexico
Alma materUniversidad Autónoma Metropolitana
Occupation(s)Writer and journalist

Juan Antonio Villoro Ruiz (born 24 September 1956, in Mexico City) is a Mexican writer and journalist and the son of philosopher Luis Villoro. He has been well known among intellectual circles in Mexico, Latin America and Spain for years, but his success among a wider readership has grown since receiving the Herralde Prize for his novel El testigo.