Luis Mateo Díez
Spanish writer
The Most Excellent Luis Mateo Díez | |
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| Born | Luis Mateo Díez Rodríguez (1942-09-21) 21 September 1942 (age 81) Villablino (León), Spain |
| Seat I of the Real Academia Española | |
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| Assumed office 20 May 2001[a] | |
| Preceded by | Claudio Rodríguez |
Luis Mateo Díez Rodríguez (born 21 September 1942) is a Spanish writer. He has written widely in a variety of genres, and has published over 50 books till date. He is best known for his works that focus on the fictional Kingdom of Celama (e.g. El espíritu del páramo, La ruina del cielo and El oscurecer). Two of his novels have won both the Premio de la Crítica and the Premio Nacional de Narrativa - La fuente de la edad in 1986, and La ruina del cielo in 2000.[1] Díez also won the National Prize for Spanish Literature in 2020.
Díez won the Miguel de Cervantes Prize in 2023, the most prestigious literary award in the Spanish-speaking world.
Notes
- ^ Elected on 22 June 2000
References
- ^ Bio
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Real Academia Española seat I
- Francisco Pizarro (1713)
- José Torrero y Marzo (1736)
- Gaspar de Montoya (1763)
- Francisco Patricio de Berguizas (1801)
- Diego Clemencín (1814)
- Jerónimo del Campo (1839)
- Juan Valera (1862)
- Santiago Ramón y Cajal[1]
- Blas Cabrera (1936)
- Gerardo Diego (1948)
- Claudio Rodríguez (1992)
- Luis Mateo Díez (2001)
[1] He was elected in 1905 but never took the seat
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