José Jiménez Lozano

Spanish writer (1930–2020)
José Jiménez Lozano

José Jiménez Lozano (13 May 1930 – 9 March 2020[1]) was a Spanish writer. In 2002 he was awarded the Miguel de Cervantes Prize.

Biography

Jiménez Lozano was born in Langa, a village in the province of Ávila. After finishing his studies in 1962, he became a journalist and writer, winning the Cervantes Prize in 2002. Not well known to the general public, he emphasized religious and social themes in both his journalism and his novels.

Works

  • Historia de un otoño (novel) (1971)
  • El sambenito (novel) (1972)
  • La salamandra (novel) (1973)
  • El santo de mayo (novel) (1976)
  • Guía espiritual de Castilla (essays) (1984)
  • Avila (essays) (1988)
  • El grano de maíz rojo (novel) (1988)
  • El empleo (novel) (1989)
  • El mudejarillo (novel) (1992)
  • Tantas devastaciones (poems) (1992)
  • La boda de Ángela (novel) (1993)
  • Teorema de Pitágoras (novel) (1995)
  • Un fulgor tan breve (poems) (1995)
  • Las sandalias de plata (novel) (1996)
  • El tiempo de Eurídice (poems) (1996)
  • Los compañeros (novel) (1997)

Adaptations

  • Tom Ojos Azules is the basis of a children's opera (2016) of the same name by American composer John Craton, with libretto by José Jiménez Lozano.

References

  1. ^ "Muere el escritor José Jiménez Lozano, Premio Cervantes y Nacional de Literatura, a los 89 años".

External links

  • (in Spanish) El Poder de la Palabra paragraph with short bio and bibliography
  • (in Spanish) Premio Cervantes longer biography
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Laureates of the Miguel de Cervantes Prize
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  • 1980: Juan Carlos Onetti
  • 1981: Octavio Paz
  • 1982: Luis Rosales
  • 1983: Rafael Alberti
  • 1984: Ernesto Sabato
  • 1985: Gonzalo Torrente Ballester
  • 1986: Antonio Buero Vallejo
  • 1987: Carlos Fuentes
  • 1988: María Zambrano
  • 1989: Augusto Roa Bastos
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