Juan Jose Mira was a Spanish writer. In 1952, he became the first winner of the Premio Planeta, one of the most important literary prizes in Spain, for his book En la noche no hay caminos.
He was born Juan José Moreno Sánchez in 1907 in the town of La Puerta de Segura. He moved to Madrid to study law and spent the Spanish civil war working at Mundo Obrero . Fighting for the left, he was detained in a concentration camp before moving to Barcelona, where he remained close to the Partido Comunista. He worked as an editor and screenwriter, and was linked to the literary circles at Ateneo de Barcelona. In spite of Francoist censorship, he published another novel Mañana es ayer in 1955.
On the strength of these two novels, he is sometimes included in the "Generación del Medio Siglo" (or the Generation of the 1950s), which also includes Ana María Matute, Carmen Martín Gaite, Jesús Fernández Santos, Ignacio Aldecoa, Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio, Juan Goytisolo and Alfonso Grosso. [1]
He died in Lloret de Mar en 1980. [2]
Manuel Vázquez Montalbán was a prolific Spanish writer from Catalonia: journalist, novelist, poet, essayist, anthologue, prologist, humorist, critic and political prisoner as well as a gastronome and a FC Barcelona supporter.
Premio Nadal is a Spanish literary prize awarded annually by the publishing house Ediciones Destino, part of Planeta. It has been awarded every year on 6 January since 1944. The Josep Pla Award for Catalan literature is given at the same ceremony.
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Luisa Castro is a Spanish writer and journalist who has published in Galician and Spanish. She has lived in Barcelona, New York City, Madrid and Santiago de Compostela. She is currently Director of the Instituto Cervantes in Bordeaux, France.
The Premio Planeta de Novela is a Spanish literary prize, awarded since 1952 by the Spanish publisher Grupo Planeta to an original unpublished novel written in Spanish. It is one of about 16 literary prizes given by Planeta.
Alberto Ruy-Sánchez Lacy is a Mexican writer and editor born in Mexico City on 7 December 1951. He is an author of fiction, non-fiction and poetry. Since 1988 he has been the chief editor and founding publisher of Latin America's leading arts magazine, Artes de Mexico. He has been a visiting professor at several universities including Stanford, Middlebury and La Sorbonne, and has been invited to give lectures in Europe, Africa, Asia, North America and South America. His work has been praised by Octavio Paz, Juan Rulfo, Severo Sarduy, Alberto Manguel and Claude Michel Cluny and has received awards from several international institutions.
Martí de Riquer i Morera, 8th Count of Casa Dávalos was a Spanish–Catalan literary historian and Romance philologist, a recognised international authority in the field. His writing career lasted from 1934 to 2004. He was also a nobleman and Grandee of Spain.
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Germán Gullón, literary critic and writer, is a professor of Spanish literature and member of the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis at the University of Amsterdam. He has authored, beside his scholarly works and essays, two books of short stories, Adiós, Helena de Troya and Azulete, and two novels, Querida hija and La codicia de Guillermo de Orange.
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The Fernando Lara Novel Award is given annually in Spain by the José Manuel Lara Foundation and the Planeta publishing house to an unpublished novel in the Spanish language. The publication of the finalist (runner-up) work is not expected, although it is sometimes published by Planeta itself.
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