José Jiménez Lozano



José Jiménez Lozano (13 May 1930 – 9 March 2020 ) was a Spanish writer. In 2002 he was awarded the Miguel de Cervantes Prize.

Biography
Jiménez Lozano was born in Langa, a village in the province of Ávila. After finishing his studies in 1962, he became a journalist and writer, winning the Cervantes Prize in 2002. Not well known to the general public, he emphasized religious and social themes in both his journalism and his novels.

Works

 * Historia de un otoño (novel) (1971)
 * El sambenito (novel) (1972)
 * La salamandra (novel) (1973)
 * El santo de mayo (novel) (1976)
 * Guía espiritual de Castilla (essays) (1984)
 * Avila (essays) (1988)
 * El grano de maíz rojo (novel) (1988)
 * El empleo (novel) (1989)
 * El mudejarillo (novel) (1992)
 * Tantas devastaciones (poems) (1992)
 * La boda de Ángela (novel) (1993)
 * Teorema de Pitágoras (novel) (1995)
 * Un fulgor tan breve (poems) (1995)
 * Las sandalias de plata (novel) (1996)
 * El tiempo de Eurídice (poems) (1996)
 * Los compañeros (novel) (1997)

Adaptations

 * Tom Ojos Azules is the basis of a children's opera (2016) of the same name by American composer John Craton, with libretto by José Jiménez Lozano.