José Jiménez Lozano
Spanish writer (1930–2020)
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
- ^ "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
- 1976: Jorge Guillén
- 1977: Alejo Carpentier
- 1978: Dámaso Alonso
- 1979: Jorge Luis Borges and Gerardo Diego
- 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
- 1990: Adolfo Bioy Casares
- 1991: Francisco Ayala
- 1992: Dulce María Loynaz
- 1993: Miguel Delibes
- 1994: Mario Vargas Llosa
- 1995: Camilo José Cela
- 1996: José García Nieto
- 1997: Guillermo Cabrera Infante
- 1998: José Hierro
- 1999: Jorge Edwards
- 2000: Francisco Umbral
- 2001: Álvaro Mutis
- 2002: José Jiménez Lozano
- 2003: Gonzalo Rojas
- 2004: Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio
- 2005: Sergio Pitol
- 2006: Antonio Gamoneda
- 2007: Juan Gelman
- 2008: Juan Marsé
- 2009: José Emilio Pacheco
- 2010: Ana María Matute
- 2011: Nicanor Parra
- 2012: José Manuel Caballero Bonald
- 2013: Elena Poniatowska
- 2014: Juan Goytisolo
- 2015: Fernando del Paso
- 2016: Eduardo Mendoza
- 2017: Sergio Ramírez
- 2018: Ida Vitale
- 2019: Joan Margarit
- 2020: Francisco Brines
- 2021: Cristina Peri Rossi
- 2022: Rafael Cadenas
- 2023: Luis Mateo Díez