Vicente Verdú

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Vicente Verdú (Elx, 1942) is a Spanish writer, journalist and economist.

He is a doctor in Social Science by the University of Paris and member of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at the Harvard University. He has been editor in chief of Cuadernos para el Diálogo and Revista de Occidente, and chief of Collaborations, and Opinion and Culture in El País, where he currently publishes a column every Friday and Saturday.

In 1997 he was awarded the González-Ruano Prize of Journalism and the Miguel Delibes National Prize of Journalism for his article La vista sorda, published in El País on 30 October 1997.

[edit] Published books and essays

Si usted no hace regalos le asesinarán (1971), a book of drawings censored by the Francoist regime.
Noviazgo y matrimonio en la burguesía española (1974).
Las solteronas (1978).
El fútbol: mitos, ritos y símbolos (1981).
Sentimientos de la vida cotidiana (1985).
Domicilios (1987).
Héroes y vecinos (1988)
Días sin fumar (1988), runner-up for the Premio Anagrama de Ensayo.
Señoras y Señores: Impresiones desde los 50 (25th Premio Espasa de Ensayo).
El Planeta Americano (1997), which obtained the 24th Premio Anagrama de Ensayo.
Emociones (1997).
El estilo del mundo (2003).
Noviazgo y matrimonio en la sociedad española: 1974-2004 (2004).