1918 in Atoyac, Jalisco; d. 2007, Mexico City) was a Mexican academic, diplomat, essayist, historian, bibliographer and editor.
He was the director of the Fondo de Cultura Económica from 1977 to 1982 and professor of literature with the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters at the National Autonomous University of Mexico.
[3] In addition to his academic posts, he served as Mexico's representative at UNESCO for the year 1963-64 and was ambassador to Greece from 1971 to 1974.
Among the many awards and honors he has received are the National Prize for Arts and Sciences (Premio Nacional de Ciencias y Artes) for Literature and Linguistics, the Alfonso Reyes International Prize (Premio Internacional Alfonso Reyes), the Menéndez Pelayo International Prize, the Spanish Civil Order of Alfonso X, the Wise and the French Legion of Honor.
During his leadership of the Fondo de Cultura Económica, over 700 new titles were published and he created the Revistas Literarias Mexicanas Modernas collection, which reprinted, in facsimile editions, the most important literary magazines published in Mexico during the first half of the twentieth century.