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The death of Fernando Sánchez Dragó has shaken the world of literature. The 86-year-old writer died on April 10, 2023 because of a heart attack at his home in Castilfrío de la Sierra (Soria). However, it is not only the cultural world that mourns who was one of its most prominent figures. For years, the author of books such as Gargoris and Habidis or the biography of Santiago Abascal was also a regular in the pages of the heart due to his love affairs. Almost all with much younger women.

The last couple of the intellectual and his partner in recent days has been Emma Nogueiro, a 29-year-old journalist who met him doing an interview. With her he claimed to "practice intercourse like never before." Something that gains strength when the writer claimed to have had sex with hundreds of women. Of course, according to his own words, none older than forty years and all with short hair, because it bothered him in bed.

Before meeting Emma Nogueiro, Dragó was married for almost 30 years to Naoko, a Japanese woman also decades younger than him whom he met in his literature course at Kyoto University, according to La Vanguardia. In 2012, the couple had their first child together, Akela Sánchez (10). Previously, the author had fathered three other children together with three different women.

Dredging with Naoko in 2013GTRES

His eldest son Alejandro Sánchez Salama (63) was the result of his relationship with his first wife Elvira Salama, whom he met while a prisoner of the Franco regime. "I committed the folly of getting married in prison," she confessed at the time. After this stage, the author traveled to Italy and met Caterina Barilli, a professor of history and philosophy with whom he fathered his first daughter, Ayanta Barilli (54). Today journalist and writer. However, the one who was one of the great loves of his life died when his little girl was only 9 years old. A fact that always marked them.

Dragó had a third daughter named Aixa Sánchez Sáinz (42) with another of her partners, the French Martine Sáinz. They never married.

Short romances

Other well-known romances of the writer are Laura Celeiro or the journalist and politician linked to Ciudadanos Anna Grau. However, he said, the list consisted of hundreds of women with whom he had romances or simply sexual relations. Emma Nogueira was planning to write a book about the correspondence between Sánchez Dragó and his mother, with whom the writer himself claimed to have an Oedipal and fetishistic relationship.

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