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.

This article uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Jiménez and the second or maternal family name is Lozano.
José Jiménez Lozano

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.
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gollark: Rust would be better for this. It has ADTs.
gollark: Although I suppose its puny USB-OTG thing might not be happy with powering up my disk through an adapter.
gollark: In some sort of ridiculous emergency it's technically mountable from my spare phone (unlike NTFS, as the kernel on that is ancient).
gollark: You need special software to read the deduplicated/compressed/encrypted backup repositories off my disk *anyway*, so using a slightly less well supported filesystem is not a concern.

References
  1. https://www.abc.es/cultura/libros/abci-muere-jose-jimenez-lozano-premio-cervantes-y-nacional-literatura-89-anos-202003091214_noticia.html?ref=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2F
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