José Jiménez Lozano

José Jiménez Lozano (May 13, 1930- ) is a Spanish writer.

Biography

Jiménez Lozano was born in Langa, a village in Ávila (province), in 1930. 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 has emphasized religious and social themes in both his journalism and his novels.

Works

* "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 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)

External links

*Es icon [http://www.epdlp.com/escritor.php?id=1867 El Poder de la Palabra ] paragraph with short bio and bibliography
*Es icon [http://www.portal-local.com/occu_cer_jjloz_vida.asp Premio Cervantes] longer biography