Fernando Sánchez Dragó (2 October 1936 – 10 April 2023) was a Spanish writer and television host.

Biography

Fernando Sánchez Dragó was born in the Salamanca district of Madrid, the posthumous son of Fernando Sánchez Monreal, a journalist who was killed in the Spanish Civil War by the Francoist

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. His father was director of the news agency Febus, as well as director of the agency Noti-Sport. Sánchez was a student at the Colegio del Pilar and at the University of Madrid (now known as the Complutense). A member of the Communist Party of Spain in his youth, he was imprisoned because of his opposition to Francoist Spain and was in exile for seven years. Sánchez Dragó participated along with other figures linked to Spanish Nouvelle Droite in the

Manifesto Against the Death of the Spirit and the Earth The Manifesto Against the Death of the Spirit and the Earth (Spanish: ''Manifiesto contra la Muerte del Espíritu y de la Tierra'') was a text published in the Spanish magazine ''El Cultural'' on 19 June 2002. Coauthored by Álvaro Mutis and Javie ...

in 2002, later forming the ''Asociación Manifiesto'', a meeting point of old and new reactionaries as well as former

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group

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members. Labelled a "new reactionary", he however described himself as an individualist libertarian anarchist. The author of more than 45 books, he won the 1979 Premio Nacional de Ensayo for his essay ''Gárgoris y Habidis. Una historia mágica de España''. This work has been criticised because of its

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content, mostly attacking Ashkenazi Jews. Sánchez Dragó also won the 1992

Premio Planeta 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Planeta de Novela is a Spanish literary prize, awarded since 1952 by the Spanish publisher Grupo Planeta to an original unpublished novel written in Spanish.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. Financially, it is the ...

for his novel ''La prueba del laberinto'' and the 2006

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for his book based on the life and death of his father, ''Muertes paralelas''. In a 2010 work entitled ''Dios los cría... y ellos hablan de sexo, drogas, España, corrupción...'', Sánchez Dragó bragged about having had sex with two thirteen year-old minors during his time in Japan in 1967. A noted endorsement in the meeting of the

far-right Far-right politics, also referred to as the extreme right or right-wing extremism, are political beliefs and actions further to the right of the left–right political spectrum than the standard political right, particularly in terms of being ...

political party Vox celebrated in the Palacio Vistalegre in October 2018, he vowed to support 90% of the party political programme. Sánchez Dragó died on 10 April 2023, at age 86, after suffering a heart attack at his residence in Castilfrío de la Sierra.

Awards

* Adopted Son of Soria (1992)

References

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