José Luis Sampedro Sáez (

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, 1 February 1917 –

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, 8 April 2013) was a Spanish economist and writer who advocated an economy "more humane, more caring, able to help develop the dignity of peoples". Academician of the

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since 1990, he was the recipient of the

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, the

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(2010) and the Spanish Literature National Prize (2011)."El Nacional de las Letras premia el compromiso de Sampedro. El galardón, dotado con 40.000 euros, reconoce la la trayectoria de un autor y su obra en cualquiera de las lenguas oficiales del Estado"
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''. Retrieved 9 April 2013. He became an inspiration for the

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Biography

In 1917, the year of his birth, his family moved to

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(

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), where he lived until aged thirteen. In 1936, he was mobilized by the Republican faction in the

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, fighting in an

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battalion. He spent the war serving variously in

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, and Huete (

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). After the war, he was again called up and served in the garrison of the Spanish enclave of

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. After the war, he obtained work as a

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in Santander before moving to

, where, in 1944, he married Isabel Pellicer before completing his

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studies in

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in 1947, winning, in the process, the award of an "Extraordinary Prize". Thereafter, he started working with a major Spanish

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at that moment, the

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, whilst also teaching at the university. In 1955, he became the

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at the

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, which post he held until 1969, combining teaching with various positions in the Banco Exterior de España, where he reached the post of deputy

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. Meanwhile, he published academic works about the post economic reality and structural analysis and the European future of Spain and also wrote his first

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''A place to live'' (1955). Around 1965 and 1966, there was a purge of prominent university professors in Spain including the philosopher :es:José Luis López Aranguren and socialist lawyer

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, as a result of which he decided to become a

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at the Universities of

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and

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. Along with other teachers, Sampedro created the Spanish Center for Studies and Research (CEISA), a symbol of intellectual independence which would be closed in

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three years later. In 1968, he was appointed as

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lecturer at

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for women in

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USA On his return to Spain, he requested a

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from Complutense University and published a satirical play called ''the naked horse''. After the death of

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, in 1976, he returned to the Banco Exterior de España as a consultant economist. In 1977, he was appointed senator by

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, then, following the first democratic

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, he was elected as a

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, a post he held until 1979. In parallel to his professional activity as an economist, he published several novels and continued to write after his official retirement, achieving great successes with works like ''October, October'', ''Etruscan smile'', or ''Old siren''. Sadly, his literary successes coincided with the tragic news of the death of his wife, Isabel Pellicer, in 1986. In 1990, he was appointed member of the

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, the definitive authority on the

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where his

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inaugural address, ''From the border'' related to the subject of his novel ''The old siren'', published that same year, which can be considered a Spanish hymn to ''life, love and tolerance''. In 2003, the

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ed Sampedro was remarried to the writer, poet and translator :es:Olga Lucas in the spa town of

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. Thereafter, he spent part of the year on

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, in the

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, whose symbol, the

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tree, homes the

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of the

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peak of

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, which inspired him to write ''The path of the dragon tree''. He exercised his critical

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about what he viewed as the

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and

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arising from

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style

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and

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. In reference to this, he collaborated with the

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during May 2011 by writing the preface to the Spanish edition of the book '' Time for Outrage'' by the French diplomat

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. Sampedro died on April 8, 2013, in Madrid, aged 96 years old.

Awards

In 2002, Sampedro was appointed honorary non-executive chairman of the Spanish

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company Sintratel, along with Nobel prizewinner

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. Sintratel is a skit on ''sin trabajo telecoms'' or ''telecommunications workers without work''. In 2008, he was awarded the Medal of the Order of Charlemagne by the Principality of Andorra. In April 2009 he was invested as Honorary degree, Doctor Honoris Causa of the University of Seville. In 2010, was awarded the XXIV

for his "many contributions to human thought" as, variously, an economist, writer, and teacher. Additionally, the Spanish

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awarded Sampedro the

on 15 November 2010 for "his outstanding literary career and his thought committed to the problems of his time". In 2011, he received the

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. On May 24, 2012, was invested Doctor Honoris Causa by the

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near Madrid.

Aranjuez

Route followed by wood transporters of the Tagus River in ''The river that leads..''. In his novel ''Royal Site'', Sampedro takes a tour of the

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and its gardens. Echoing the sentiments of the geographer :es:Thomas Lopez. That

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is the ''real and true'' center of Spain. Aranjuez is also the final terminal of a route followed by timber rafters floating timber to the

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s along the '' Rio Tajo'' in the novel ''A river that leads''. He is celebrated locally in the José Sampedro Centro de Educación de Adultos and a conference room of the municipal cultural center.

Works

Novels

''Los círculos del tiempo'' trilogy: # ''Octubre, octubre'' (1981), # ''La vieja sirena'' (1990), # ''Real Sitio'' (1993), Stand-alones: * ''La estatua de Adolfo Espejo'' (1939, published 1994), * ''La sombra de los días'' (1947, published 1994), * ''Congreso en Estocolmo'' (1952), * ''El río que nos lleva'' (1961), * ''El caballo desnudo'' (1970), * ''

La sonrisa etrusca ''La sonrisa etrusca'' ("The Etruscan Smile") is a bestselling novel written by the Spanish economist and author José Luis Sampedro in 1985. Originally, it was written in Spanish language, Spanish. The story was inspired by the birth of the autho ...

'' (1985), * ''El amante lesbiano'' (2000), * ''La senda del drago'' (2006), * ''Cuarteto para un solista'' (2011), cowritten with Olga Lucas,

Short stories

Collections: * ''Mar al fondo'' (1992), collection of 10 short stories, : *: "Ártico", "Mediterráneo", "Báltico", "Índico", "Land's End", "Caribe", "Egeo", "Mar del Sur", "Mar Amarillo", "Antártico" * ''Mientras la tierra gira'' (1993), collection of 32 short stories, : *: "Primer grupo": "La sombra de los días", "Etapa", "Trayecto final", "La sierva y el ángel", "Un día feliz", "El tratado con Laponia", "La felicidad", "El agostero", "Una visita", "El buen pan", "Tormenta en el campo", "Gregorio Martín" *: "Segundo grupo": "La noche de Cajamarca", "Viajero", "Arca número dos", "Junto a la ventana", "Fantasía de Año Nuevo", "Un puñado de tierra", "El hombre fiel", "La isla sumergida", "Un caso de cosmoetnología: la religión hispánica", "La bendición de Dios", "Sabiduría sufí", "El llanto de la llave perdida" *: "Tercer grupo": "Ebenezer", "Aquel instante en Chipre", "En la misma piel del tigre", "A Erika", "Divino diván", "La Mortitecnia, industria de Occidente", "Felisa", "Iniciación" Uncollected short stories: * "La balada del agua" (2008),

Plays

* ''La paloma de cartón'' (1948, printed in 2007) * ''Un sitio para vivir'' (1955, printed in 2007), * ''El nudo'' (1982)

Poems

* ''Días en blanco: Poesía completa'' (2020),Poem collection ''Días en blanco: Poesía completa''
a
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(in Spanish). collection,

Non-fiction

;Economy: * ''Principios prácticos de localización industrial'' (1957), * ''Realidad económica y análisis estructural'' (1959), * ''Lecciones de estructura Económica'' (1965), * ''Las fuerzas económicas de nuestro tiempo'' (1967), * ''Estructura económica: teoría básica y estructura mundial'' (1969), * ''Conciencia del subdesarrollo'' series: *# ''Conciencia del subdesarrollo'' (1973), *# ''Conciencia del subdesarrollo veinticinco años después'' (1996), cowritten with Carlos Berzosa, * ''Inflación: una versión completa'' (1976) * ''La Inflación: Prótesis del sistema'', or ''La inflación (al alcance de los ministros)'' (1985), * ''El mercado y nosotros'' (1986), * ''Dulce cintura de América'' (1991), cowritten with Luis Ramírez Benéytez and Luis de Sebastián, * ''El mercado y la globalización'' (2002), * ''Los mongoles en Bagdad'' (2003), * ''Multimegamuchaglobalización'' (2008), cowritten with Carlos Berzosa and Ángel Martínez González-Tablas, * ''Economía humanista. Algo más que cifras'' (2009), * ''Economía eres tú'' (2015), ;Autobiographies: * ''Escribir es vivir'' (2005), cowritten with Olga Lucas, * ''La escritura necesaria'' (2006), essay-dialogue on his novels and his life * ''Monte Sinaí'' (2012), * ''Sala de espera'' (2014), ;Others: * ''Fronteras'' (1995), opinion * ''Con nombre y apellidos'', or ''Con nombre y apellidos: cómo localizar a nuestros antepasados'' (1999), guide, * ''Las joyas de las reinas de España'' (2004), cowritten with Fernando Rayón, art, * ''Conversaciones sobre política, mercado y convivencia'' (2006), cowritten with Carlos Taibo Arias, politics, * ''La ciencia y la vida'' (2008), dialogue next to the cardiologist

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ordered by Olga Lucas, * ''Reacciona: 10 razones por las que debes actuar frente a la crisis económica, política y social'' (2011), cowritten with

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, Rosa María Artal, Ignacio Escolar, Carlos Martínez Alonso, Javier López Facal, Javier Pérez de Albéniz and Lourdes Lucía, politics, * ''Pregón de la rosa'' (2013), speech, * ''La vida perenne'' (2015), philosophy,

Adaptations

* ''

El río que nos lleva ''El río que nos lleva'' is a 1989 Spanish drama film directed by Antonio del Real based on the novel of the same name by José Luis Sampedro. It stars Tony Peck, Alfredo Landa, and Eulàlia Ramon. Plot Set in 1946, the plot depicts the last ...

'' (1989), film directed by

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, based on novel ''El río que nos lleva'' * ''The Etruscan Smile'' (2018), film directed by Oded Binnun and Mihal Brezis, based on novel ''

References

External links

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