José Jiménez Lozano was awarded the 2002 Cervantes Prize. He was a first-class intellectual, philosopher of tolerance and heterodox Christian.
His first novel, Story of an Autumn, is a narrative about the resistance of the nuns of Port-Royal, in obedience to their conscience, against the absolute power of the Crown in the Great French Century. His chronicles of the council and the post-council have just been rescued and the cosmological whim of Gentlemen Birds is already printing its complete works with as much speed as merit.