José Agustín Ramírez Gómez (19 August 1944 – 16 January 2024) was a Mexican novelist, short story writer, essayist and screenwriter.

[4] Agustín participated in Juan José Arreola's writers' workshop from 1962 to 1965, where he wrote his first novel, La tumba ("The Tomb"), when he was nineteen years old.

A common technique in his work is mixing a character's speech with narrative, without making any kind of distinction (free indirect discourse).

Thus the reader finds a long dialogue written in a single sentence, and is expected to realize which character is speaking as he reads the words.

[3] The Mexican band Belafonte Sensacional wrote the song "Epic Aris" inspired by the literary works of José Agustín and Parménides García Saldaña, another writer who was considered a member of La Onda literature.