his book '68 (published by Seven Stories Press in 2004) was inspired by the events of that year and direct personal experience, it tells the story of the movement including the Tlatelolco massacre of student protesters in Mexico City by government troops: at the La Plaza de las Tres Culturas, thousands of people were arrested, hundreds killed, and hundreds are still missing. To date nobody has been held accountable for these crimes. Among PIT's most popular works is a series of detective novels, written against the prevailing bourgeois state in Mexico in the last few decades of the 20th century, with the protagonist, Mexican Private Investigator Héctor Belascoarán Shayne, who was introduced in the novel Días de combate. PIT wrote eight more novels with this character. In 2022, Netflix premiered “Belascoarán”, a mini-series based on the novels. Other novels include: Cuatro manos (Four Hands); Sombra de la sombra (Shadow of the Shadow); Amorosos fantasmas; and Temporada de Zopilotes: Una historia narrativa sobre la Decena Trágica (Buzzards' season: A narrative history about the Ten Tragic Days) and, the last of the series, Muertos incómodos (The Uncomfortable Dead), co-authored with Subcomandante Marcos. PIT organizes the "Semana Negra" ("The Noir Week"), a crime fiction festival held every year in his birth city of Gijón in Spain. Family He is the son of Paco Ignacio Taibo I (†, 6/19/1924-11/13/2008) and the brother of movie producer Carlos Taibo and poet Benito Taibo. Awards and honors 1991 Dashiell Hammett (Spain) for his novel Cuatro Manos 1994 Dashiell Hammett (Spain) for his novel La Bicicleta de Leonardo 1998 Premio Bancarella (Italy) for his novel Senza Perdere la Tenerezza Bibliography Spanish Cuatro Manos, novel, Buenos Aires (Argentina): Ediciones Colihue SRL, 1991. La Bicicleta de Leonard, novel, Planeta, 1994. Ernesto Guevara, también conocido como el Che, novel, Planeta, 1997. Senza Perdere la Tenerezza, novel, Il Saggiatore, 1998. '68, nonfiction, New York: Seven Stories Press, 2004. Patria, three-part series, Planeta, 2017. Héctor Belascoarán Shayne series Días de combate , 1976. ("Days of Combat") Cosa Fácil, 1977. ("An Easy Thing") Algunas Nubes, 1980. ("Some Clouds") No habrá final feliz, 1981. ("No Happy Ending") Regreso a la misma ciudad y bajo la lluvia, 1989. ("Return to the Same City") Amorosos Fantasmas, 1990. ("Loving Ghosts") Sueños de frontera, 1990. ("Frontera Dreams") Desvanecidos difuntos, 1991. Adiós Madrid, 1993. English The Shadow of the Shadow, translated by William I Neuman, Scottsdale AZ Poisoned Pen Press