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Among authors from Mexico in the reader ranking is Silvia Moreno-Garcia, a Mexican-Canadian novelist whose “Mexican Gothic” (2020) begins in 1950s Mexico City. Books set in Mexico include John Steinbeck’s novella “The Pearl” (1947), which takes place in La Paz on the Baja California peninsula. The Mexican poet Octavio Paz received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1990.
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