Luis Zapata Quiroz (27 April 1951 – 4 November 2020) was one of the most prominent gay writers in Mexican literature.Robert Aldrich and Garry Votherspoon, Who's Who in Contemporary Gay and Lesbian History Vol. 2: From World War II to the Present Day. p. 460. Taylor & Francis, 2001. .
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.
Zapata died in Cuernavaca on 4 November 2020, after being hospitalized in Morelos a month earlier.Fallece escritor Luis Zapata, autor de ‘El vampiro de la Colonia Roma
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 De pétalos perennes (Perennial Petals), 1981 Melodrama, 1983 En jirones (In Tatters), 1985 La hermana secreta de Angélica María (Angélica Maria's Secret Sister), 1989 ¿Por qué mejor no nos vamos? (Why Don't We Just Leave?), 1992 La más fuerte pasión (The Strongest Passion), 1995 Los postulados del buen golpista, 1995 Siete noches junto al mar, 1999 La historia de siempre (The Same Story As Always), 2007 Escena y farsa es la vida (2014) Como sombras y sueños (2014) Autobiografía póstuma (2014)
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