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Premio Nadal
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. The current monetary award stand at €18,000 for the winner and since 2010 there has been no runner-up. It is one of the oldest and most prestigious Spanish literary awards. Winners List of Premio Nadal winners since the award was established: * 1944: Carmen Laforet for ''Nada'' * 1945: José Félix Tapia for ''La Luna ha entrado en casa'' * 1946: José María Gironella for ''Un hombre'' * 1947: Miguel Delibes for ''La sombra del ciprés es alargada'' * 1948: Sebastián Juan Arbó for ''Sobre las piedras grises'' * 1949: José Suárez Carreño for ''Las últimas horas'' * 1950: Elena Quiroga for ''Viento del Norte'' * 1951: Luis Romero for ''La noria'' * 1952: Dolores Medio for ''Nosotros, los Rivero'' * 1953: Lluïsa Forrellad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Literary
Literature is any collection of Writing, written work, but it is also used more narrowly for writings specifically considered to be an art form, especially prose fiction, drama, and poetry. In recent centuries, the definition has expanded to include oral literature, much of which has been transcribed. Literature is a method of recording, preserving, and transmitting knowledge and entertainment, and can also have a social, psychological, spiritual, or political role. Literature, as an art form, can also include works in various non-fiction genres, such as biography, Diary, diaries, memoir, Letter (message), letters, and the essay. Within its broad definition, literature includes non-fictional books, articles or other printed information on a particular subject.''OED'' Etymology, Etymologically, the term derives from Latin language, Latin ''literatura/litteratura'' "learning, a writing, grammar," originally "writing formed with letters," from ''litera/littera'' "letter". In sp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francisco José Alcántara
Francisco José Alcántara (1922–1999) was a Spanish writer and journalist. He was born in Haro and grew up in Bilbao and La Coruna. He worked as a Jesuit missionary in Bogotá and Caracas, and afterwards returning to civilian life, studied in Zaragoza and Barcelona. He is best known for his novel ''La muerte le sienta bien a Villalobos'' which won the Premio Nadal 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. ... in 1954. References 20th-century Spanish journalists 20th-century Spanish novelists Jesuit missionaries in Colombia 1922 births 1999 deaths Spanish expatriates in Colombia {{Spain-writer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luis Gasulla
Luis is a given name. It is the Spanish form of the originally Germanic name or . Other Iberian Romance languages have comparable forms: (with an accent mark on the i) in Portuguese and Galician, in Aragonese and Catalan, while is archaic in Portugal, but common in Brazil. Origins The Germanic name (and its variants) is usually said to be composed of the words for "fame" () and "warrior" () and hence may be translated to ''famous warrior'' or "famous in battle". According to Dutch onomatologists however, it is more likely that the first stem was , meaning fame, which would give the meaning 'warrior for the gods' (or: 'warrior who captured stability') for the full name.J. van der Schaar, ''Woordenboek van voornamen'' (Prisma Voornamenboek), 4e druk 1990; see also thLodewijs in the Dutch given names database Modern forms of the name are the German name Ludwig and the Dutch form Lodewijk. and the other Iberian forms more closely resemble the French name Louis, a derivati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Álvaro Cunqueiro
Álvaro Cunqueiro Mora (Mondoñedo, December 22, 1911 – Vigo, February 28, 1981) was a Galician novelist, poet, playwright, and journalist. He is the author of many works in both Galician and Spanish, including ''Merlín e familia'' ("Merlin and family"). He was a cofounder of the Galician Writers Association. In 1991, Galician Literature Day was dedicated to him. Life Cunqueiro was born to Joaquín Cunqueiro Montenegro, a pharmacist, and Pepita Mora Moirón of Mondoñedo (where he was infamous for his practice of stealing coats at parties). He did his ''bachillerato'' (secondary school) studies in the ''Instituto Xeral e Técnico'' (General and Technical Institute) in the city of Lugo, where he befriended the writers Evaristo Correa Calderón and Ánxel Fole. He began to study in the Department of Philosophy and Literature at the University of Santiago de Compostela in 1927, but abandoned his studies to dedicated himself to journalism, writing for various newspapers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
José María Sanjuán
José is a predominantly Spanish and Portuguese form of the given name Joseph. While spelled alike, this name is pronounced differently in each language: Spanish ; Portuguese (or ). In French, the name ''José'', pronounced , is an old vernacular form of Joseph, which is also in current usage as a given name. José is also commonly used as part of masculine name composites, such as José Manuel, José Maria or Antonio José, and also in female name composites like Maria José or Marie-José. The feminine written form is ''Josée'' as in French. In Netherlandic Dutch, however, ''José'' is a feminine given name and is pronounced ; it may occur as part of name composites like Marie-José or as a feminine first name in its own right; it can also be short for the name ''Josina'' and even a Dutch hypocorism of the name ''Johanna''. In England, Jose is originally a Romano-Celtic surname, and people with this family name can usually be found in, or traced to, the English county of C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eduardo Caballero Calderón
Eduardo Caballero Calderón (6 March 1910 – 3 April 1993) was a Colombian journalist and writer. As a journalist, he worked for the main Colombian newspapers, including El Tiempo and El Espectador. Also he was a diplomat from Colombia in Peru, Argentina, Spain and France. Caballero was elected as congressman two times for the department of Boyacá and was mayor of Tipacoque. Cabellero Calderón began writing in the 1940s and rose to prominence in the 1950s and 1960s. His most known books are ''El Cristo de espaldas'' (Backwards Christ) (1952), ''Siervo sin tierra'' (Landless Servant) (1954), ''La penúltima hora'' (The Hour Before the Last) (1955), and ''Manuel Pacho'' (1962), which are mainly depictions of events related to the bipartisan violence in Colombia (La Violencia). Other works are '' Cain'' (1969), ''El buen salvaje'' (The Good Savage) (1963), a book that won the Nadal Prize in 1965 and ''Historia de dos Hermanos'' (Two Brothers' History) (1977) among others. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manuel Mejía Vallejo
Manuel Mejía Vallejo (23 April 1923 – 23 July 1998) was a Colombian writer and journalist. The specialist Luís Carlos Molina says that Mejía represents the Andean aspect of the contemporary Colombian narrative, characterized by a world of symbols which are little by little being lost in the memory of the mountain. Doctor Honoris Causa of the National University of Colombia. Professor of literature at the National University of Colombia at Medellín, director of the Departmental Printing Press of Antioquia. Born in Jericó, he studied at the Bolivarian Pontifical University and studied painting and sculpture at the Fine Arts Institute of Medellín. He collaborated as a journalist in the newspaper 'El Sol''. He was the creator of Grupo La Tertulia with Gonzalo Restrepo Jaramillo and Jaime Sanín. Between 1949 and 1957 he was exiled in Venezuela, Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador. In 1978 he was named Director of the Writer's Workshop of the Pilot Public Library of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ramiro Pinilla
Ramiro Pinilla (1923-2014) was a Spanish writer. He was born in Bilbao ( Basque Country) in 1923. He won the Premio Nadal 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. ... in 1960 for his novel ''Las ciegas hormigas'' (''The Blind Ants''). He left the literary circuit for many years and did not emerge again until the 2000s, when he released his Basque trilogy of novels titled ''Verdes valles, Colinas rojas'' (''Green Valleys, Red Hills'') to great critical acclaim. He died in 2014. References Spanish writers People from Bilbao 1923 births 2014 deaths {{Spain-writer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ana María Matute
Ana María Matute Ausejo (26 July 1925 – 25 June 2014) was an internationally acclaimed Spanish writer and member of the Real Academia Española. In 1959, she received the Premio Nadal for ''Primera memoria''. The third woman to receive the Cervantes Prize for her literary oeuvre, she is considered one of the foremost novelists of the ''posguerra'', the period immediately following the Spanish Civil War."Estoy cansada de repetirlo: tengo 85 años, nací en 1925 y no en 1926 como se emperran en decir" '''', 16 November 2010. Biography Matute was born ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
José Vidal Cadellans
José Vidal Cadellans (1928–1960) was a Spanish novelist. He published only one novel in his lifetime, titled ''No era de los nuestros'', which won the Premio Nadal 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. ... in 1958. He died in 1960 at the age of 31; two other books were published after his death. He married Concepció Torrescasana Vila in September 1959, and left behind a daughter Solange Vidal Torrescasana. Although almost completely forgotten today, his distinctive works attracted critical attention when they were published. An extensive summary of his life and work was published by Revista Igualada by Oscar Jorba Jorba. References Spanish novelists 1928 births 1960 deaths {{Spain-writer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Entre Visillos
''Entre visillos'' (English: Behind the Curtains) is the first novel of the late Spanish writer Carmen Martín Gaite, who was from Salamanca. Published in 1957, it is considered one of the author's most important works, and it won the Premio Nadal 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. ... in 1957. In a list published by the Spanish newspaper El Mundo, it was considered one of the best 100 Spanish novels of the 20th century. Plot Through seemingly trivial conversations among a group of young women, the tedium and emptiness of their lives is revealed. The plot centers on the arrival of Pablo Klein to the city to teach German at the high school, as his personality conflicts with the flat and conformist atmosphere that encloses the lives of the young women. References 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carmen Martín Gaite
Carmen Martín Gaite (8 December 1925 – 23 July 2000) was a Spanish author. She wrote many novels, short stories, screenplays, and essays, across many genres. Gaite was awarded the Premio Nadal in 1957 for '' Entre visillos'', the Prince of Asturias Awards in 1988, the Award Premio Castilla y León de las Letras in 1992, and the Premio Acebo de Honor for her life's work. Biography Carmen Martín Gaite was born on December 8, 1925, in Salamanca. She was the second daughter of José Martín López (Valladolid, 1885) and María Gaite Veloso (Orense, 1894), who married in 1923. Her parents had met in Salamanca, where her father worked as a notary. Her mother and maternal grandparents were from Orense. Her grandfather was a professor of geography, and her great uncle founded the Ateneo of Orense and was a director and a publisher of the newspaper called ''El Orensano''. The family used to spend their summers on her grandparents farm in San Lorenzo de Piñor ( Barbadás), five ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
