Julio Llamazares
Julio Llamazares (born 1955) is a Spanish author born in Vegamián, León Province.
He is a law graduate but left law to become a writer. His work encompasses multiple genres including novels, short stories, poetry, essays, travel writing, screenplays and journalism. He has had a regular column in El País since the early 1980s, and has been featured on radio and TV. His first works were two collections of poetry: La lentitud de los bueyes first published in 1979 and La memoría de la nieve in 1982. Luna de lobos ("Wolf moon") is his first novel, published in 1985 and recently translated into English (2017). His prose writing is characterised by a lyrical style and an intense interest in nature; Luna de lobos is essentially a novel of the land, where nature is almost the protagonist. This is something often found in pre-Boom Latin American literature.
Works
- Narrative
- Luna de lobos (1985), novel
- La lluvia amarilla (1988), novel
- Escenas del cine mudo (1994), novel
- En mitad de ninguna parte (1995), stories
- Tres historias verdaderas (1998), stories
- El cielo de Madrid (2005), novel
- Las lágrimas de San Lorenzo (2013), novel
- Distintas formas de mirar el agua (2013), novel
- Poetry
- La lentitud de los bueyes (1979)
- Memoria de la nieve (1982)
- Essays
- El entierro de Genarín: Evangelio apócrifo del último heterodoxo español (1981)
- En Babia (1991), newspaper articles
- Nadie escucha (1995), newspaper articles
- En mitad de ninguna parte (1995), newspaper articles
- Los viajeros de Madrid (1998), newspaper articles
- Modernos y elegantes (2006), newspaper articles
- Entre perro y lobo (2008), newspaper articles
- Travel writing
- El río del olvido (1990)
- Trás-os-montes (1998)
- Cuaderno del Duero (1999)
- Las rosas de piedra (2008)
- Screenplays
- Retrato de un bañista (1984)
- Luna de lobos (1987)
- El techo del mundo (1995)
- Flores de otro mundo (1999)
- Anthology
- Antología y Voz; El Búho Viajero (2007)
Translations into English
- The yellow rain (La lluvia amarilla) translated by Margaret Jull Costa, Harvill Press (2003) ISBN 018-604695-2
- Wolf Moon (Luna de lobos) translated by Simon Deefholts & Kathryn Phillips-Miles, Peter Owen Publishers (2017) ISBN 978-07206-1949-2
Awards
- 1978: Premio Antonio González de Lama.
- 1982: Premio Jorge Guillén.
- 1983: Premio Ícaro.
- 1986: Finalista Premio Nacional de Literatura.
- 1988: Libro de Oro de la CEGAL.
- 1989: Finalista Premio Nacional de Literatura.
- 1992: Premio de Periodismo El Correo Español-El pueblo vasco.
- 1993: Premio Nonino.
- 1994: Premio Cardo D´Oro.
- 1999: Premio de la Semana Internacional de la Crítica en el Festival Internacional de Cannes.
Further reading
- AA.VV., El universo de Julio Llamazares. Cuadernos de narrativa 3, Neuchâtel, Université de Neuchâtel, 1998.
- ALLES, Lisbeth Korthals, y MONTFRANS, Manet van, New Georgics: Rural and Regional Motifs in the Contemporary European Novel, Rodopi: Amsterdam, 2002.
- CARLÓN, José, Sobre la nieve: la poesía y la prosa de Julio Llamazares, Madrid, Espasa, 1996.
- VERES, Luis, "Intertextualidad narrativa en los cuentos de Julio Llamazares", Espéculo, 19 (2001-2002).
External links
- (in Spanish) Interview with Julio Llamazares
- https://www.peterowen.com/julio-llamazares-postmemory/
- https://www.elpais.com/autor/julio_llamazares/a
- http://eurolitnetwork.com/from-wolf-moon-by-julio-llamazares-translated-by/