Fernando Aramburu (San Sebastián, 1959) is a Spanish writer.[1]

This biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification. (February 2009)

Career

He graduated in Spanish Philology from University of Zaragoza and has been living and working as a lecturer in Spanish language in Germany since 1985. His 2006 novel Fuegos con limón described his youthful experiences in Grupo CLOC de Arte y Desarte, a surrealist group which published a magazine between 1978 and 1981.[2] He won the Premio Tusquets de Novela in 2011 for his novel Años lentos,[3] and the Premio Biblioteca Breve in 2015 for Ávidas pretensiones.[4] He is considered among the most important living Spanish writers, alongside novelists like Arturo Pérez-Reverte, Andrés Pascual and Eduardo Mendoza, all of them included in the so-called Spanish New Narrative.[5]

Works

• Fuegos con limón (Fires with Lemon) (won the Ramón Gómez de le Serna prize in 1997)
• Los ojos vacíos (Empty Eyes) (Euskadi Prize in 2001)
• El Trompetista del Utopia (The Trompetist of Utopia) (made into a film called Under the Stars)
• Bambi sin sombra (Shadowless Bambi)
• El artista y su cadaver (The Artist and his Corpse) (short prose writings)
• Vida de un piojo llamado Matías (Life of a louse called Matias) (children's book)
• No ser no duele (Not being does not hurt) (short stories)
• Los peces de la amargura (The Fish of Bitterness) (short stories; won the Mario Varga Llosa NH prize in 2006)
• Ávidas pretensiones (Avid Pretensions) (2014)
• Patria (Homeland) (2016)
• Autorretrato sin mí (Self-portrait without me) (2018)
• Los vencejos (The swifts) (2021)

References

Sources

• (eus) Arinas, Txema (Berria 10/11/2016), 'Eppur si muove' Retrieved 25/08/2018.
• (es) Zaldua, Iban (https://vientosur.info/ 22 march 2017), «La literatura, ¿sirve para algo? Una crítica de Patria, de Fernando Aramburu». Retrieved 25/08/2018.
• Bedside stories No. 8. - NH Hoteles

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