Jesús López Pacheco (1930 in

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, Spain – April 6, 1997 in

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, Canada) was a

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and professor of Spanish. López Pacheco studied

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and

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(

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) at the University of Madrid. His

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sympathies soon became evident and he participated in the fledgling anti-

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student protests. López Pacheco first published collections of poetry: ''Dejad crecer este Silencio'' (Premio Adonais 1953), ''Mi corazón se llama Cudillero'' (1961), ''Pongo la mano sobre España'' (1961) ''Canciones del amor prohibido'' (1961). His 1958 his novel ''Central Eléctrica'' discussed progress, workers and social injustice. It was short listed for the

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. López Pacheco left Spain in 1968, accepting a one-year position at the

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in London, Ontario. He would stay there until his retirement in 1994, when he moved to Toronto. He was a professor

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at the time of his death. In London he would translate works of English and

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poets, as well as publish his own poetry (''Delitos contra la Esperanza'' (1970)), another novel (''La hoja de parra'' (1977)), a

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anthology (''Lucha contra el Murciélago'' (1990)), and a play (''Máquina contra la Soledad o la Scherezada electrónica'' (1989)). His ''Asilo poético: poemas escritos en Canadá 1968–1990'' (1991) discussed his political self-exile. Finally, he published ''Ecólogas y urbanas, manual para evitar un fin de siglo siniestro'' in 1996.

Family

López Pacheco married María de la Soledad (Marisol) Lázaro Morán. The couple had three children: Bruno Lazaro, a Canadian-Spanish

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, Alexandra Lopez-Pacheco (born in 1960), a freelance journalist and partner in a Canadian-based writing and editing firm called Words Matter, and Fabio Lopez Lazaro, a university history professor, who has taught in Canada and the United States.

Selected bibliography

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Lopez Pacheco, Jesus 1930 births 1997 deaths Writers from Madrid Spanish communists Spanish novelists Spanish male novelists Academic staff of the University of Western Ontario 20th-century Spanish novelists 20th-century Spanish poets Spanish male poets