Which Mexican writer wrote the 1955 novel 'Pedro Páramo'?

Juan Rulfo wrote the 1955 Mexican novel Pedro Páramo.

The novel follows Juan Preciado, who travels to the village of Comala to find his father, the powerful landowner Pedro Páramo. Instead of finding a normal community, he encounters voices, memories, and spectral figures, creating a fragmented narrative in which the living and the dead overlap.

Rulfo published Pedro Páramo in 1955 after developing parts of it through earlier drafts and magazine publications. Its compressed prose, shifting perspectives, and treatment of rural violence made it one of the foundational works of modern Mexican literature and an important precursor to the Latin American Boom.

Readers sometimes confuse Rulfo with Gabriel García Márquez because both are strongly associated with magical realism. Rulfo, however, was Mexican, while García Márquez was Colombian. Pedro Páramo is also distinct from Rulfo’s story collection El Llano en llamas, published two years earlier.