José Jiménez Lozano

Spanish writer (1930–2020)

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is  Jiménez and the second or maternal family name is  Lozano.

José Jiménez Lozano

José Jiménez Lozano (13 May 1930 – 9 March 2020[1]) was a Spanish writer. In 2002 he was awarded the Miguel de Cervantes Prize.

## Biography[edit]

Jiménez Lozano was born in Langa, a village in the province of Ávila. After finishing his studies in 1962, he became a journalist and writer, winning the Cervantes Prize in 2002. Not well known to the general public, he emphasized religious and social themes in both his journalism and his novels.

## Works[edit]

* Historia de un otoño (novel) (1971)
* El sambenito (novel) (1972)
* La salamandra (novel) (1973)
* El santo de mayo (novel) (1976)
* Guía espiritual de Castilla (essays) (1984)
* Avila (essays) (1988)
* El grano de maíz rojo (novel) (1988)
* El empleo (novel) (1989)
* El mudejarillo (novel) (1992)
* Tantas devastaciones (poems) (1992)
* La boda de Ángela (novel) (1993)
* Teorema de Pitágoras (novel) (1995)
* Un fulgor tan breve (poems) (1995)
* Las sandalias de plata (novel) (1996)
* El tiempo de Eurídice (poems) (1996)
* Los compañeros (novel) (1997)

## Adaptations[edit]

* Tom Ojos Azules is the basis of a children's opera (2016) of the same name by American composer John Craton, with libretto by José Jiménez Lozano.

## References[edit]

1. ^ "Muere el escritor José Jiménez Lozano, Premio Cervantes y Nacional de Literatura, a los 89 años".

## External links[edit]

* (in Spanish) El Poder de la Palabra  paragraph with short bio and bibliography
* (in Spanish) Premio Cervantes longer biography

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Laureates of the Miguel de Cervantes Prize

1970s|

* 1976: Jorge Guillén
* 1977: Alejo Carpentier
* 1978: Dámaso Alonso
* 1979: Jorge Luis Borges and Gerardo Diego

1980s|

* 1980: Juan Carlos Onetti
* 1981: Octavio Paz
* 1982: Luis Rosales
* 1983: Rafael Alberti
* 1984: Ernesto Sabato
* 1985: Gonzalo Torrente Ballester
* 1986: Antonio Buero Vallejo
* 1987: Carlos Fuentes
* 1988: María Zambrano
* 1989: Augusto Roa Bastos

1990s|

* 1990: Adolfo Bioy Casares
* 1991: Francisco Ayala
* 1992: Dulce María Loynaz
* 1993: Miguel Delibes
* 1994: Mario Vargas Llosa
* 1995: Camilo José Cela
* 1996: José García Nieto
* 1997: Guillermo Cabrera Infante
* 1998: José Hierro
* 1999: Jorge Edwards

2000s|

* 2000: Francisco Umbral
* 2001: Álvaro Mutis
* 2002: José Jiménez Lozano
* 2003: Gonzalo Rojas
* 2004: Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio
* 2005: Sergio Pitol
* 2006: Antonio Gamoneda
* 2007: Juan Gelman
* 2008: Juan Marsé
* 2009: José Emilio Pacheco

2010s|

* 2010: Ana María Matute
* 2011: Nicanor Parra
* 2012: José Manuel Caballero Bonald
* 2013: Elena Poniatowska
* 2014: Juan Goytisolo
* 2015: Fernando del Paso
* 2016: Eduardo Mendoza
* 2017: Sergio Ramírez
* 2018: Ida Vitale
* 2019: Joan Margarit

2020s|

* 2020: Francisco Brines
* 2021: Cristina Peri Rossi
* 2022: Rafael Cadenas
* 2023: Luis Mateo Díez

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