The novelist and RAE academic Juan Goytisolo (Barcelona, 1935), National Prize for Spanish Literature in 2013, has died at the age of 91. The author of the monumental tetralogy Antagonía was the brother of the also great Barcelona writers Juan Goytisolo and José Agustín Goytisolo.
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Juan Goytisolo was the author of works such as Las afueras (Breve Library prize in 1958), La paradoja del ave migratoria or Estatua con palomas (National Narrative Prize in 1992).
Like his two older brothers, Luis began studying Law in 1953 in Barcelona, which he abandoned to devote himself to politics and literature. During Francoism he belonged to the Communist Party of Spain, a connection that earned him a stay in prison.
He directed the magazine Letras and also directed and wrote television documentaries, such as the series Índico and Mediterráneo, broadcast by Spanish Television. In 1994 he was elected to occupy chair C at the Royal Spanish Academy, which he entered in January 1995 with the speech entitled The impact of the image on contemporary Spanish narrative.
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He is the author of the essays Índico (1992); Naturaleza de la novela (2013); El sueño de San Luis (2015) and El atasco y demás fábulas (2016), a collection of notes, reflections and aphorisms written over forty years.
Luis Goytisolo has received, among others, the Sésamo Prize (1957), the Breve Library, the City of Barcelona Prize (1976), the Critics’ Prize for Estela del fuego que se aleja (1984), the National Narrative, the Anagrama Essay Prize for Naturaleza de la novela (2013) and the National Prize for Letters (2013).
