The writer Alvaro Pombo has won the 2024 Cervantes prize.
Álvaro Pombo has a degree in Philosophy and Letters from the Complutense University of Madrid and a Bachelor of Arts in the same discipline from Birkbeck College in London, the city where he lived when he published his first book of poems, ‘Protocols’ (1973), written in the sixties.
His works, translated into several languages - such as German, French, Dutch, Greek, English, Italian, Norwegian and Portuguese – include both poetry, a genre that he has never abandoned, and fiction, a fundamental dedication that he has shared with his interest. for history and especially for philosophy.
Author of an extensive narrative work, he has written the novels ‘The Adopted Son’ (1984), made into a film with the title ‘The Game of Invisible Messages’ (1992); ‘The insignificant crimes’ (1986); ‘The iridescent platinum meter’ (1990); ‘Appearance of the eternal feminine told by HM the King’ (1993); ‘Telepena by Celia Cecilia Villalobo’ (1995); ‘Life of Saint Francis of Assisi’ (1996); ‘Where the Women’ (1996); ‘Squaring the circle’ (1999); ‘The ceiling’ (2001); ‘A window to the north’ (2004); ‘Against nature’ (2005); ‘The Fortune of Matilda Turpin’ (2006); ‘Virginia or the interior of the world’ (2009); ‘The Previous Death of Lieutenant Aloof’ (2009); ‘The Hero’s Tremor’ (2012); ‘Stay with us, sir, because it is evening’ (2013); ‘The transformation of Johanna Sansíleri’ (2014); ‘A big big world’ (2015); ‘The Clock House’ (2016); ‘Portrait of the Viscount in Winter’ (2018); ‘The fate of a common cat’ (2020) and ‘Santander, 1936’ (2023).
In addition to his narrative work, Pombo is the author of four collections of poems, which he compiled, along with other unpublished poems, in the book ‘Protocols (1973-2003)’. from 2004, as well as the essay ‘The Supreme Fiction. An assault on the idea of God’ (2022). In 2014 ‘Irremediable Grace’ was published. Álvaro Pombo: poetics of a style’, a book that collects the presentations read in a seminar dedicated to the writer, organized by the Menéndez Pelayo International University and the Plaza Porticada Cultural Association in 2009. A dialogue between Pombo and the philosopher was also published José Antonio Marina on ‘Literary creativity’ (2013).
Among other distinctions, Álvaro Pombo has received the El Bardo award (1977) for his collection of poems ‘Variations’; the first Herralde Prize for Narrative (1983) for ‘The Hero of the Mansards of Mansard’; the Critics’ Award for ‘El metro de platino iridiado’ (1990); the National Narrative Award (1997) for ‘Donde las mujeres’; the Planeta Prize for ‘The Fortune of Matilda Turpin’ (2006); the Nadal Prize (2012) for ‘The Hero’s Tremor’ and the Francisco Umbral Prize (2024) for his novel ‘Santander, 1936’.
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