Francisco Azuela, was born in León City, Guanajuato, México, in 1948.  He is the grandson of  Mariano Azuela, first novelist of the Mexican Revolution.  He studied at the Universities of Guanajuato, Iberoamericana, UNAM and Panamericana of Mexico City and in the Complutense of Madrid and Laval in Québec.   Mr. Azuela is a member of the General Society of Writers of Mexico, Ordinary Member, and Member of the Panamerican Counsel of CISAC and Member of the International Writers Guild. 

He was a diplomat in the Mexican Embassies in Costa Rica and Honduras (1973-1983) and was decorated with the Order of the Central American Liberator FRANCISCO MORAZAN, rank of Official, by the Honduran Government.  He was a candidate of the Honduran Academy of Language at the International Literary Prize CENVANTES of Spain in 1981.

He has published:

  • El Maldicionero (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras, 3ª.ed.,1981)
  • El Tren de Fuego (Instituto de la Cultura del Estado de Guanajuato, 1993)
  • La Parole Ardente, edición bilingüe (John Donne & Cie., France, 1993)
  • Son las Cien de la Tarde (Instituto de la Cultura del Estado de Guanajuato, 1996)
  • Ángel del Mar de mis Sueños (Centro Cultural Internacional El Cóndor de los Andes-Águila Azteca, A.C., 2000).

Additionally, his work has been published in the following journals:

  • Interactions (Department of German-University College, London)
  • Rimbaud Revue (Semestriel International de Création Littéraire, France et la Communauté Européenne des poétes)
  • La Revista Neruda Internacional and
  • diverse magazines from Canada, Central America, Spain, Mexico, Portugal  and Puerto Rico.

He was the Director of the Library of the Honorable Congress of the Chamber of Deputies of the State of Guanajuato (1991-1997) and founder of ecological institutions of civil society.

Mr. Azuela was General Coordinador of Council of Culture of León, Guanajuato (1998) and founder of the  International Gallery “Sculptor Víctor Gutiérrez”- Century XXI, S.C., located in  Mexicon City (1998).

He is Director General and founder of the International Cultural Center El Cóndor de los Andes – Aguila Azteca, A.C., located in Cochabamba City, Bolivia, (1999).  The Editora University of Lisbon, Portugal, published the book of contemporary poetry “UN MUNDO NO CORAÇAO”, of the French poet Jean-Paul Mestas, bilingual edition, 2002 in Portuguese and French which contains 82 poets from 57 countries in which Mr. Azuela represents Mexico.

The Bolivian Prestigiada Editorial Plural Editores, reedited three of his books, that were presented to the Mexican Embassy at the VII International Book Fair, celebrated in La Paz in August of 2002.

Starting in November, 2001, Mr. Azuela took root in the city of La Paz, Bolivia, where he became the  Director of the Integrated Center of Documentation and Information (CIDI)  of the International Institute of Integration of the Andrés Bello Convention,  International Intergovernmental Organization of which the members include:  Bolivia, Colombia, Cuba, Chile, Ecuador, Spain, Panama, Paraguay, Peru and Venezuela