Álvaro Pombo
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| Álvaro Pombo | |
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| Born | Álvaro Pombo García de los Ríos 23 June 1939 Santander, Spain |
| Seat j of the Real Academia Española | |
| Assumed office 20 June 2004[lower-alpha 1] |
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| Preceded by | Pedro Laín Entralgo |
Álvaro Pombo García de los Ríos (born 23 June 1939) is a Spanish poet, novelist and activist.
Born in Santander, Cantabria, he studied at the Complutense University of Madrid and received a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy at Birkbeck, University of London, where he lived between 1966 and 1977. His first book of poetry, Protocolos, was published in 1973, and four years later he won the El Bardo prize for his 1977 Variaciones. Returning to Spain that year, he published a collection of short stories, Relatos sobre la falta de sustancia, many of which contained homosexual characters and themes.
Pombo was elected to seat j of the Real Academia Española on 19 December 2002, he took up his seat on 20 June 2004.[1]
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Prizes and Rewards
- In October 2006, Pombo was awarded the Premio Planeta literary prize for his novel La fortuna de Matilda Turpin.
- In 2012 he was awarded the Premio Nadal for his novel El temblor del héroe.
Works
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- Novels
- El héroe de las mansardas de Mansard (1983)
- El hijo adoptivo (1986)
- Los delitos insignificantes (1986)
- El parecido (1988)
- El metro de platino iridiado (1990)
- Aparición del eterno femenino contada por S. M. el Rey (1993)
- Telepena de Cecilia Cecilia Villalobo (1995)
- Vida de san Francisco de Asís (1996)
- Donde las mujeres (1996)
- La cuadratura del círculo (1999)
- El cielo raso (2001)
- Una ventana al norte (2004)
- Contra natura (2005)
- La fortuna de Matilda Turpin (2006)
- Virginia o el interior del mundo (2009)
- La previa muerte del lugarteniente Aloof (2009)
- El temblor del héroe (2012)
- Short stories
- Relatos sobre la falta de sustancia (1977)
- Cuentos reciclados (1997)
- Poetry
- Protocolos (1973)
- Variaciones (1977)
- Hacia una constitución poética del año en curso (1980)
- Protocolos para la rehabilitación del firmamento (1992)
- Protocolos, 1973-2003 (2004)
- Los enunciados protocolarios (2009)
- Essays
- Alrededores (2002)
Notes
- ↑ Elected on 19 December 2002
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- Living people
- People from Santander, Spain
- 20th-century Spanish novelists
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- Alumni of Birkbeck, University of London
- Writers from Cantabria
- Complutense University of Madrid alumni
- Spanish gay writers
- Gay politicians
- Gay poets
- Gay novelists
- Spanish LGBT poets
- Spanish LGBT novelists
- Members of the Royal Spanish Academy
- Spanish male poets
- Spanish male novelists
- 20th-century Spanish poets
- 20th-century Spanish male writers
- 20th-century Spanish LGBT people
- Union, Progress and Democracy politicians
- 21st-century Spanish poets
- 21st-century Spanish male writers
- 21st-century Spanish LGBT people
