Julio Llamazares
Encyclopedia
Julio Llamazares is a Spanish author born in Vegamián
, León Province.
He is a law graduate but left law for journalism including radio and TV and literature. His first works were poetry La lentitud de los bueyes first published in 1979 and La memoría de la nieve in 1982. Luna de lobos is his first novel, published in 1985. His prose writing is characterised by a lyrical style and an intense interest in nature; Luna de lobos is essentially a novel of the land, where nature is almost the protagonist. This is something usually found in pre-Boom Latin American literature
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Poetry
Essays
Travel writing
Screenplays
Anthology
Boñar
The municipality of Boñar is located in the province of León, Castile and León, Spain. According to the 2010 census , the municipality has a population of 2,085 inhabitants with almost all of the residents living in the main town of Boñar...
, León Province.
He is a law graduate but left law for journalism including radio and TV and literature. His first works were poetry La lentitud de los bueyes first published in 1979 and La memoría de la nieve in 1982. Luna de lobos is his first novel, published in 1985. His prose writing is characterised by a lyrical style and an intense interest in nature; Luna de lobos is essentially a novel of the land, where nature is almost the protagonist. This is something usually found in pre-Boom Latin American literature
Latin American literature
Latin American literature consists of the oral and written literature of Latin America in several languages, particularly in Spanish, Portuguese, and indigenous languages of the Americas. It rose to particular prominence globally during the second half of the 20th century, largely due to the...
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Works
Narrative- Luna de lobos (1985), novel
- La lluvia amarilla (1988), novel
- Escenas del cine mudo (1994), novel
- En mitad de ninguna parte (1995), stories
- Tres historias verdaderas (1998), stories
- El cielo de Madrid (2005), novel
Poetry
- La lentitud de los bueyes (1979)
- Memoria de la nieve (1982)
Essays
- El entierro de Genarín: Evangelio apócrifo del último heterodoxo español (1981)
- En Babia (1991), newspaper articles
- Nadie escucha (1995), newspaper articles
- En mitad de ninguna parte (1995), newspaper articles
- Los viajeros de Madrid (1998), newspaper articles
- Modernos y elegantes (2006), newspaper articles
- Entre perro y lobo (2008), newspaper articles
Travel writing
- El río del olvido (1990)
- Trás-os-montes (1998)
- Cuaderno del Duero (1999)
- Las rosas de piedra (2008)
Screenplays
- Retrato de un bañista (1984)
- Luna de lobos (1987)
- El techo del mundo (1995)
- Flores de otro mundo (1999)
Anthology
- Antología y Voz; El Búho Viajero (2007)
Awards
- 1978: Premio Antonio González de Lama.
- 1982: Premio Jorge Guillén.
- 1983: Premio Ícaro.
- 1986: Finalista Premio Nacional de Literatura.
- 1988: Libro de Oro de la CEGAL.
- 1989: Finalista Premio Nacional de Literatura.
- 1992: Premio de Periodismo El Correo Español-El pueblo vasco.
- 1993: Premio Nonino.
- 1994: Premio Cardo D´Oro.
- 1999: Premio de la Semana Internacional de la Crítica en el Festival Internacional de Cannes.
Further reading
- AA.VV., El universo de Julio Llamazares. Cuadernos de narrativa 3, Neuchâtel, Université de Neuchâtel, 1998.
- ALLES, Lisbeth Korthals, y MONTFRANS, Manet van, New Georgics: Rural and Regional Motifs in the Contemporary European Novel, Rodopi: Amsterdam, 2002.
- CARLÓN, José, Sobre la nieve: la poesía y la prosa de Julio Llamazares, Madrid, Espasa, 1996.
- VERES, Luis, "Intertextualidad narrativa en los cuentos de Julio Llamazares", Espéculo, 19 (2001-2002).