The winner of the Nadal Award with ‘El nino de los coroneles’ has died of autoimmune hepatitis
Fernando Maras (Bilbao, 1958) novelist, editor and inventor of novel cultural concepts, such as Diodati moves The Children of Mary Shelley He died this Saturday at the age of 63 from autoimmune hepatitis.
Author of novels like the miraculous light, The Boy of the Colonels (2001 Nadal Award), The woman with the gray wings The All the love and almost all the death (Spring 2010 Award). his novel The island of the Father received the 2015 Brief Library Award.
Among his novels aimed at a young audience, stand out sky below (Anaya Award 2005 and National Award for Children’s and Youth Literature 2006), Zara and the Baghdad bookseller (Wide Angle Award 2008) and silence moves.
Maras had presented his last work a few months ago (Burn this book), a true story of love, death and uprooting started in Madrid in the eighties and concluded today. Autobiographical, speculative, alcoholic, spectral.
The writer moved to Madrid in 1975 to study Cinematography. His work has been made into a film the miraculous light (adapted by himself and directed by Miguel Hermoso, 2002, winner of numerous international awards) and Invasive (Daniel Calparsoro, 2012). In 2020 he has co-authored the script for the documentary short film Biography of the corpse of a woman, by Mabel Lozano.
He was also a producer of theatrical proposals tonight we will die Y This was it!!, theatrical duets with Espido Freire that includes two monologues and a subsequent meeting with the public.
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