Leopoldo Alas Mínguez
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Leopoldo Alas Mínguez (4 September 1962 in
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– 1 August 2008 in
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) was a Spanish writer, poet and editor. He was the grand nephew of
Leopoldo Alas Leopoldo Enrique García-Alas y Ureña (25 April 1852 – 13 June 1901), also known as Clarín, was a Spanish realist novelist and journalist born in Zamora. His inflammatory articles, known as ''paliques'' (“chitchat”), as well as his a ...
"Clarin". He studied in Italian philology, and was one of the most important authors of homosexual literature in Spain. Between 1987 and 1992 he directed '' Signos Magazine'', which he founded together with Luis Cremades and Daniel Garbade, publishing important poetry by
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, Vicente Molina Foix. Since 1986 he had written numerous articles for magazines and newspapers.


Novels

* ''Bochorno'' (1991) * ''El extraño caso de Gaspar Ganijosa'' (2001) * ''A través de un espejo oscuro'' (2005) * ''La loca aventura de vivir'' (obra póstuma, 2009)


Poetry

* ''Los palcos'' (1988) * ''La condición y el tiempo'' Editor.Huerga y Fierro editores col. Signos, 1992, * ''La posesión del miedo'' (1996) * ''El triunfo del vacío'' (2004) * ''Concierto del desorden'' (2007) * ''Nostalgia de siglos y Con estas mismas distancias'' (2011)


Theatre

* ''Última toma'' (1985) * ''La pasión de madame Artú'' (1992) * ''Sin demonio no hay fortuna'' (1987). Lib''Radio''reto of an ópera. * ''Estamos en el aire'' (1991). Libreto of an ópera.


Catalogues

He published texts for catalogues and art publications about different artists, as for Swiss artist Daniel Garbade, in ''Cóctel'', published by El Wisli, 1996, together with by de
José Saramago José de Sousa Saramago (; 16 November 1922 – 18 June 2010) was a Portuguese people, Portuguese writer. He was the recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature for his "parables sustained by imagination, compassion and irony [with which ...
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Rafael Alberti Rafael Alberti Merello (16 December 1902 – 28 October 1999) was a Spanish poet, a member of the Generation of '27. He is considered one of the greatest literary figures of the so-called ''Silver Age'' of Spanish Literature, and he won numer ...
, Jesús Ferrero, Vicente Molina Foix, Vicente Molina Foix.a Foix * Catalogue "Coctel" Toledo 1996,


Radio

Starting septiembre 2004 until his death, Leopoldo Alas conducted the programa ''Entiendas o no entiendas'' at Radio 5, Radio Nacional de Espana


References

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