The writer José María Merino is the winner of the 2021 National Prize for Spanish Letters, organized by the Ministry of Culture and endowed with 40,000 euros. The jury of the award has highlighted "the mastery and excellence in the creation of fantastic literature in the narrative modalities of novel, short novel, short story and short story" of the writer, an academic of the RAE since 2008. Merino thus joins the list of winners of the National Prize , dedicated to recognizing the whole of the literary work of a Spanish author in any of the country's languages. His friend
Luis Mateo Díez, Bernardo Atxaga and Francisca Aguirre
are his most immediate predecessors.
José María Merino was born in La Coruña in 1941, spent
his formative years in León
and much of his adult life in Madrid.
His first books were of poems, early works published in the early 1970s that preceded his first novel,
Novela de Andrés Choz
(1976).
The dark shore;
I am not a book;
The visions of Lucrecia;
The heir;
and
El río del Edén
(National Narrative Award) are some of his most prominent titles.
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