José Jiménez Lozano

José Jiménez Lozano (born 13 May 1930) is 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 has 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.

External links

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

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