The journalist Francisco Chacón (Bilbao, 1963), founder of the edition of EL MUNDO in the Basque Country, former head of the Culture section of EL MUNDO and correspondent for the newspaper
ABC
in Lisbon, has died in Malaga
along with his family
.
Chacón, who also worked at Ajoblanco
magazine
in the 1990s, was one of the best-known firms in Spanish cultural journalism over the last three decades.
After growing up as a teenager in the years of the New Wave and the cultural renaissance of Transitional Spain and training at the University of the Basque Country and the
El Correo
Master's in Journalism , Chacón turned his professional interest towards music. pop.
Proud of the connection of his city, Bilbao, with the European avant-garde
, his approach to culture was marked by cosmopolitan fascination and cultural nonconformity, by a desire to go beyond the small world of the dominant culture at the time.
Contemporary art, the projection of the avant-garde on political and social movements and the vindication of popular culture were also topics to which Chacón devoted his attention.
Portugal was the journalist's other obsession.
After leaving EL MUNDO in 2012, Chacón
settled in Lisbon
, the city where he wrote for the
ABC
newspaper until his illness prevented him from working at the end of last summer.
"Fran Chacón was an example of generosity,
enthusiasm and friendship
for all of us who worked with him," portrayed his former colleague Carlos Fresneda, correspondent for EL MUNDO in London.
"I still remember the day he called me excited because David Bowie had given us an interview in New York, thanks to his connections with the record company. He handed Bowie over to me not just once, but twice, and, over time, Paul McCartney and our idolized Leonard Cohen. Working with him was like being part of a dynamic duo, which was still very much alive even after his departure from EL MUNDO and his happy years in Portugal. 'Lisbon is a city that comforts the soul,' used to say, in a quote I stole from him for the book
Dear Son
, dedicated to my son Alberto, with whom he will surely make friends wherever he is".
"We have listened to a few fados, Fran, and we have shaken off our grief in the middle of winter.
Although you were one of those who thought that the
saudade
should not be shaken off, but in any case let yourself be soaked by it
and wait in any case for it to fade away
march, by natural evaporation: absences that hurt and presences that hardly comfort", concludes Fresneda.
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