Antonio Gala, author of 'The Turkish Passion' and 'Rings for a Lady' has died this Sunday. The poet and playwright published his first novel in 1990, 'The Crimson Manuscript', which won the Planeta prize.

At the beginning of 2015, the author had made public that he was free of colon cancer that had been diagnosed four years earlier. He wore a blue suit and striped tie, a coiffed lion's mane and a broken voice, and he did what he liked best: he mastered the environment.