The writer Luis Racionero has died this Sunday at 80 years of age , as reported by the newspaper La Vanguardia with whom he regularly collaborated.
Racionero was born in the town of La Seu d'Urgell in Lleida and studied Engineering and Economics in Barcelona, as well as urban planning at the American University of Berkeley (California).
The prolific essayist, urbanist and novelist won in 1983 in the Anagram Essay Prize with the work From unemployment to leisure and in 2011 the Graziel Prize with Memoirs of a psychedelic liberal .
Among his essays, East and West stand out (1993), in 2009 he published his memoir Surviving a great love, six times and wrote several historical novels dedicated to creators such as Leonardo da Vinci, Ramon Llull or Antoni Gaudí.
Luis Racionero was director of the College of Spain in Paris and, subsequently, from 2001 to 2004, director of the National Library .
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