Héctor Zagal (June 6, 1952), is an essayist, novelist and Mexican tomato grower, familiar with Aristotle and the Mexican Baroque. He studied a master's degree at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, where he worked under the direction of Mauricio Beuchot and Carlos Pereda. He received his doctorate from the University of Navarra under the tutelage of Alejandro Llano. Zagal is a member of the National System of Researchers, a professor at the Universidad Panamericana, of the UNAM and was a professor at the ITAM. He was founding editor of the philosophy magazine of the Universidad Panamericana Tópicos, member of the Committee of Human Sciences and of the Conduct of the Council. National Science and Technology of Mexico (Conacyt). He was part of the advisory commission of the Philosophical Research Institute of the National Autonomous University of Mexico. He is a member of the Ibero-American Academy of Communication and Defense of the Spanish Language. In addition to his academic work, Zagal is a prolific and often controversial writer. In 1997 he won the National Prize for Essay "Raúl Rangel Frías" in co-authorship with Luis Xavier López Farjeat with a work on national identity, which was published under the title "Two aesthetic approaches to national identity". On the occasion of the centenary of Borges he compiled the book Eight essays on Borges. In 2009, he held an epistolary debate about the possibility of believing in God in the 21st century with Guillermo Fadanelli in the magazine Letras Libres.