Agustín Díaz Pacheco
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Agustín Díaz Pacheco is a Spanish
Spain
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 writer
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. He has received many prizes for his stories and novels.

His publications include Los nenúfares de piedra, stories, (Ángel Acosta First Prize for Narrative, 1981); La cadena de agua y otros cuentos (1984); El camarote de la memoria (Ángel Guerra Prize for Novel, 1986), edited by Cathedral Editorial (Madrid, 1987) and reedited in the collection Anthology of Canary Literature; La rotura indemne and La red, first prize for unanimity from the Competition of Canary Stories (1986); La mirada de plata, stories, 1991; Proa en nieblas, stories, Ediciones Baile del Sol, 2001 (Tenerife); Breves atajos, stories and short stories, Ediciones Baile del Sol, 2001 (Tenerife), and Línea de naufragio (First Prize for unanimity from the VIII Competition Ateneo de La Laguna-CajaCanarias, 2002), published by Ediciones El Toro de Barro, Madrid/Cuenca, 2003.

His texts appear in four anthologies of Canary Island authors, and his novel El camarote de la memoria was selected for the periodical Discoplay (Madrid, 1987), along with works from Salman Rushdie, Malcolm Lowry
Malcolm Lowry
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, Carmen Martín Gaite
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, Gonzalo Torrente Ballester
Gonzalo Torrente Ballester
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, Ambrose Bierce
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 and Adolfo Bioy Casares
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, and for the publication CrónicaLatinoamericana (Londres, 1996); El camarote de la memoria has been studied, like texts from Víctor Doreste, Víctor Ramírez, y J.J.Armas Marcelo, by the professor and essayist El Hadji Amadou Ndoye, who included the novel in his book Estudios sobre narrativa canaria.

His stories have been the object of studies in the curricula of some universities, such as the University of Georgia
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 in the United States
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. He often contributes to cultural pages, supplements, and opinion articles. His work has been translated into French, Croatian, English, and German.
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