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The writer Fernando Sánchez Dragó dies at the age of 86

2023-04-10T12:28:52.065Z


The novelist and journalist, author of more than 40 titles and winner of various awards, including the National Literature Award, has died of a heart attack, according to sources close to him.


The writer and journalist Fernando Sánchez Dragó died this Monday at the age of 86 of a heart attack at his home in Castilfrío de la Sierra (Soria), where he was with his current partner, Emma Nogueiro, according to sources close to him.

The novelist is the author of more than 40 titles, including

Sincronías

, for which he won the Fernando Lara Novel Prize in 2006.

With a degree in Romance Philology and Modern Languages ​​(Italian Section), Sánchez Dragó was a professor of Spanish Language, Literature and History at universities in Japan, Senegal, Morocco and Kenya.

As a writer he cultivated, in addition to the novel, the essay.

His book

From him Gargoris and Habidis.

A magical history of Spain

(four volumes. Hiperión, Madrid) won the National Prize for Literature in 1979.

The mayor of the town, Joaquín Cobo, has confirmed to Efe that the death of the writer occurred around ten in the morning.

The first to assist Sánchez Dragó have been his own neighbors, including a nurse, who have tried to revive him until the emergency services have arrived and were notified at 9:57, at which time an ambulance and an ambulance have traveled to the house. helicopter.

Other works by Sánchez Dragó are the novels

Eldorado

(1984);

The sources of the Nile

(1986);

The path of the heart

(finalist for the 1990 Planeta Award), or

The Labyrinth Test

(1992 Planeta Award).

In his youth, in the late fifties and early sixties, Sánchez Dragó fought against the Franco regime, which led him to suffer 17 months in prison and seven years in exile.

The writer, however, later evolved his ideological positions from the left towards positions close to the extreme right.

Fernando Sánchez Dragó, during an interview with a group of children in Cabañeros (Ciudad Real) in 2006. Carlos de Andres (Cover/Getty Images)

Fernando Sánchez Dragó and former Prime Minister José María Aznar, in Quintanilla de Onésimo, Valladolid, in 2006. Quim Llenas (Cover/Getty Images)

The writer and journalist, photographed at his home in Madrid in 2006. Luis Magán

Portrait of the novelist in 2007. Europa Press Reports (Europa Press)

Fernando Sánchez Dragó acted as a sandbox in a Goyesque bullfight that was held in Ronda in 2010.Europa Press (Europa Press via Getty Images)

Fernando Sánchez Dragó poses during the presentation of his book 'Esos Días Azules' in Madrid, in 2011. Pablo Blazquez Dominguez (Getty Images)

The novelist, together with former Madrid president Esperanza Aguirre, in the Las Ventas bullring in 2013. Europa Press (Europa Press via Getty Images)

From the left, the journalist Hermann Tertsch, Sánchez Dragó and the bullfighter Morante de la Puebla, during a Vox act in Vistalegre in 2018.Kike Para

Vox leader Santiago Abascal and Sánchez Dragó during the book signing at the Madrid Book Fair in June 2019. Pablo Cuadra (Getty Images)

From the guest rostrum, the writer follows the debate on Vox's motion of no confidence against the Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, with Professor Ramón Tamames as a candidate for the presidency, on March 23, 2023. JJGuillen (EFE)

Sánchez Dragó also won the Ondas Prize with

El mundo for montera

and the National Prize for the Promotion of Reading with

Negro sobre blanco

.

He directed the nightly news program of Telemadrid

Diario de la noche

and until this Monday he directed and presented

Las Noches Blancas

and was a columnist, reporter and regular firm in

El Mundo

.

His journalistic work is partially collected in the four volumes of

La Dragontea and El Lobo Feroz

.

One of his most controversial episodes occurred after the publication of his novel

God breeds them... and they talk about sex, drugs, Spain, corruption...

(Planet).

In it, the author, in an autobiographical style, claimed to have had sexual relations with two 13-year-old "

lolitas"

in Tokyo (Japan).

Page 164 of the book recounts how, in 1967, he left the subway and found himself "with some of those

lolitas

-now there are many- who dress like little foxes, with painted lips, lipstick, mascara, heels, miniskirts..." .

In the same work, Sánchez Dragó also wrote that "the very whores took turns" and "the criminals were them and not me."

The writer tried to justify himself after the controversy that arose by calling this episode a "trivial anecdote turned into literature", although he presumed in the novel that the crime had already prescribed.

Later, he explained that those sentences did not represent a real situation, although in those pages he described the sexuality of those minors in lurid and meticulous detail.

Sánchez Dragó was also an honorary patron of Disenso, the foundation chaired by Santiago Abascal, the leader of the ultra Vox party.

In fact, last February, the first Castilla y León de las Letras prize awarded by Vox since he occupied the Ministry of Culture went precisely to Sánchez Dragó, who has never hidden his ideological closeness to the far-right formation.

In his book

De él Santiago Abascal.

The vertebrate Spain

, Sánchez Dragó praises the leader of Vox and his ideology.

Fernando taught me that whoever chooses the path of the heart is never wrong.

After a life in a novel, his heart has stopped beating, and those of us who admire the work of his sharp pen mourn his loss.



Roar from the sky, ferocious wolf.

You will always live in our memory.

https://t.co/2QCZ9nQpeQ pic.twitter.com/D2ieVSmmeE

— Juan García-Gallardo (@juan_ggallardo) April 10, 2023

Early this Monday, Sánchez Dragó, who lived in the province of Soria, tweeted a photograph with his cat on his official Twitter account.

“ Nano

the cat

says good morning to me.

He knows that the secret of almost everything is in the head, ”he wrote.

Nano the cat says good morning to me.

He knows that in the head is the secret of almost everything.

pic.twitter.com/n0ZsbENS55

— Fernando Sánchez Dragó (@F_Sanchez_Drago) April 10, 2023



Source: elparis

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