26 January 2014 Last updated at 13:32 ET

Mexican writer Jose Emilio Pacheco 'stable' after fall

Mexican novelist and poet Jose Emilio Pacheco, 74, is in a "stable but poor condition" after hurting his head in a fall, his daughter says.

Laura Emilia Pacheco added they were waiting for an update on his health from doctors treating him in hospital.

Earlier, local media reports said Pacheco was in intensive care and in a critical condition.

The writer is regarded as one of Mexico's foremost poets and a leading representative of his generation.

He was admitted to a Mexico City hospital on Saturday, from where his daughter briefed reporters.

"He is in poor health, he is stable and we are waiting (for news on his health)," she said.

In 2009, Jose Emilio Pacheco was awarded the Cervantes Prize, the highest literary honour in the Spanish-speaking world.

He is best-known for his accounts of adolescents growing up in a corrupt and unjust Mexico in the 1940s and 1950s.

He has also translated works by Samuel Beckett, Tennessee Williams and TS Eliot. He has taught literature at universities in the US, UK and Canada, besides his work in Mexico.