Sergio Galindo (September 2, 1926 – January 3, 1993) was a Mexican novelist and short story writer.
He was born in Xalapa in the state of Veracruz, a region of Mexico that figures prominently in much of his writing.
His most popular and widely acclaimed novels[1][2] are El Bordo (“The Precipice”, 1960) and Otilia Rauda (1986), the latter filmed as La Mujer del Pueblo in 2001.
He was the founder and first director of the University of Veracruz Press, where he also founded and edited the journal La Palabra y el Hombre (“The Word and the Man”).
In 2006, the University of Veracruz and its International University Book Festival inaugurated an annual prize for first novels by Latin American writers, called the Premio Latinoamericano de Primera Novela Sergio Galindo.