José Emilio Pacheco News: Mexican Writer 'Stable and Sedated' In Hospital

José Emilio Pacheco, the award-winning , novelist and poet is in a "stable but poor condition" according to his daughter, Laura Emilia Pacheco. The 74-year-old author fell and hit his head on Saturday evening and was admitted to hospital in Mexico City. Laura spoke with reporters outside the National Institute of Medical Sciences and Nutrition 'Salvador Zubiran' and said there had been no changes in her father's condition an that "we are waiting for more news."

José Emilio Pacheco is one of Mexico's most respected authors: in 2009, he was awarded the Cervantes Prize, the highest literary honour in the Spanish-speaking world. He is well-known for his works describing his adolescence in Mexico City and his translations of T.S. Eliot, Samuel Beckett and Tennessee Williams. The 74-year-old is in a stable condition but is unconscious after being sedated, his daughter reported. She thanked the public for their well wishes towards her father.

National Arts and Culture President Rafael Tovar took to Twitter to express his sympathy for the author: "I greatly hope that José Emilio Pacheco is restored to full health." The writer Ignacio Solares tweeted "We need the wisdom, frienship and poetry of Jose Emilio Pacheco. Get well soon, José Emilio." In one of his last appearances at Mexico's National Museum of Anthropology Pacheco expressed his regret that literature is infinite yet life is so brief. Besides his own work, he has worked as screenwriter ("El lugar sin límites"), and stage play translation ("A Streetcar Named Desire," for it's first complete representation in Mexico City, lead by actress Diana Bracho).