Paco Ignacio Taibo II

Francisco Ignacio Taibo Mahojo b January 11 1949 better known as Paco Taibo II or informally as PIT is a SpanishMexican writer novelist and political activist based in Mexico City He is most widely known as the founder of the neopolicial genre of novel in Latin America and is also a prominent member of the international crime writing community His Spanish language work has won numerous awards including two Latin American Dashiell Hammett Prizes In 2018 Taibo was appointed as head of the Fondo de Cultura Económica by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador