Catalan novelist Carlos Rojas (Barcelona, ​​1928) has died this Sunday in Greenville, South Carolina, at age 91 , Valparaíso Ediciones publishes reported Monday in a statement.

Rojas , author of more than 20 novels, won important awards such as the National Prize for Literature (1968), the Planeta Prize (1973) and the Nadal Prize (1979).

Doctor of Philosophy and Letters, Rojas , who was a Spanish reader at the University of Glasgow (Scotland), arrived in the United States in 1957, specifically Florida, where he was an assistant professor of Spanish at Rollins College.

Carlos Rojas published his first novel, Mud and Hope , in 1957, and in 1959 he won the City of Barcelona Prize with El Cino de César .

In 1963, he won the Spanish Language Selections Award with The Tenderness of the Invisible Man ; in 1968 the National Literature with Auto de Fe ; and in 1973 the Planet with his novel Azana , a portrait of which he was president of the Spanish Republic.

Four years later he won the Athenaeum of Seville with unpublished Memoirs of José Antonio Primo de Rivera , and in 1979 he won the Nadal Prize with The Ingenious Hidalgo and Poet Federico García Lorca ascends to hell , while in 1984 he also won the Mirror of Spain with the mythical and magical world of Picasso .

Then he would publish The Garden of the Hesperides (novel, 1988), Me, Goya (essay, 1990), Process to Godoy (historical novel, 1992), Alfonso de Borbón speaks with the devil (novel, 1995) and Death of Intelligence! Long live death ! (essay, 1995), The life and time of Carlos IV (historical novel, 1999), Puñeta, La Españeta (essay, 2000), Stellar moments of the war of Spain (essay, 2000), and Ten crisis of Francoism ( essay, 2003).

His latest novel was 'The Last King on Earth', published by Valparaíso Ediciones in 2016, where Rojas travels through the interwar Europe to show the anguish of being born at another time, the drama of oblivion, abandonment and death.

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