Luis Zapata

Luis Zapata Quiroz (27 April 1951 – 4 November 2020) was one of the most prominent gay writers in Mexican literature.

Career Born in Chilpancingo, Guerrero, on 27 April 1951, Luis Zapata studied French literature at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). In addition to his novels (most famously, El vampiro de la colonia Roma, 1979), he also wrote plays and short stories and was active in the field of cultural journalism. He was also a specialist translator of medieval French.

Select Novels Hasta en las mejores familias (Even in the Best of Families), 1975 El vampiro de la colonia Roma (Adonis Garcia, A Picaresque Novel), 1979 Escena y farsa es la vida (2014) Como sombras y sueños (2014)