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

External links

• (in Spanish) El Poder de la Palabra paragraph with short bio and bibliography
• (in Spanish) Premio Cervantes longer biography

На других языках

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