Fernando Sánchez Dragó (2 October 1936 – 10 April 2023) was a Spanish writer and television host.

Biography

Fernando Sánchez Dragó was born in the

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district of Madrid, the posthumous son of Fernando Sánchez Monreal, a journalist who was killed in the

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by the Francoist

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. His father was director of the news agency Febus, as well as director of the agency Noti-Sport. Sánchez was a student at the Colegio del Pilar and at the University of Madrid (now known as the Complutense). A member of the

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in his youth, he was imprisoned because of his opposition to

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and was in exile for seven years. Sánchez Dragó participated along with other figures linked to Spanish

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in the

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in 2002, later forming the ''Asociación Manifiesto'', a meeting point of old and new reactionaries as well as former

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group CEDADE members. Labelled a "new reactionary", he however described himself as an individualist libertarian anarchist. The author of more than 45 books, he won the 1979 Premio Nacional de Ensayo for his essay ''Gárgoris y Habidis. Una historia mágica de España''. This work has been criticised because of its

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content, mostly attacking

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. Sánchez Dragó also won the 1992

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for his novel ''La prueba del laberinto'' and the 2006

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for his book based on the life and death of his father, ''Muertes paralelas''. In a 2010 work entitled ''Dios los cría... y ellos hablan de sexo, drogas, España, corrupción...'', Sánchez Dragó bragged about having had sex with two thirteen year-old minors during his time in Japan in 1967. A noted endorsement in the meeting of the

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political party Vox celebrated in the

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in October 2018, he vowed to support 90% of the party political programme. Sánchez Dragó died on 10 April 2023, at age 86, after suffering a heart attack at his residence in Castilfrío de la Sierra.

Works

* ''España viva'' (Muchnik Editores, 1967) * ''Gárgoris y Habidis, Gárgoris y Habidis. Una Historia mágica de España'' (Libros Hiperión, 1978) * ''La España mágica: Epítome de Gárgoris y Habidis'' (Alianza Editorial, 1983) * ''Eldorado'' (Editorial Planeta, 1984) * ''Finisterre. Sobre viajes, travesías, naufragios y navegaciones'' with

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, Ramón Buenaventura, José María Álvarez, José María Poveda, Luis Paniagua,

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, Pedro Martínez Montálvez, Marcos-Ricardo Barnatán, Xavier Domingo, Valentín Paz Andrade y Antonio Gala (Editorial Planeta, 1984) * ''Ideas para una nueva política cultural'' (Ediciones Almar, 1984) * ''Fernando Sánchez Dragó. Una vida mágica'' (with Joaquín Arnáiz) (Anjana Ediciones, 1985) * ''Las fuentes del Nilo: protocolos del camino de Damasco'' (Editorial Planeta, 1986) * ''Del priscilianismo al liberalismo. Doble salto sin red'' (Editorial Prensa y Ediciones Iberoamericanas, 1987) * ''Volapié. Toros y tauromagia'' (Espasa-Calpe, 1987) * ''La gnosis o en conocimiento de lo oculto'' (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 1989) * ''El camino del corazón'' (Editorial Planeta, 1990) * ''Diario de un guerrero. La Dragontea, I'' (Editorial Planeta, 1992) * ''La prueba del laberinto'' (Editorial Planeta, 1992) * ''Calendario espiritual'' (Temas de Hoy, 1992) * ''Discurso numantino. Segunda y última salida de los ingeniosos hidalgos Gárgoris y Habidis'' (Editorial Planeta, 1995) * ''La del alba sería. Mis encuentros con lo invisible'' (Editorial Planeta, 1996) * ''Diccionario de la España Mágica'' (with Antonio Ruiz Vega) (Espasa-Calpe, 1997) * ''En el alambre de Shiva. La Dragontea, II'' (Editorial Planeta, 1997) * ''El camino hacia Ítaca. La Dragontea, III'' (Editorial Planeta, 1998) * ''Historia mágica del Camino de Santiago'' (Editorial Planeta, 1999) * ''Carta de Jesús al Papa'' (Editorial Planeta, 2001) * ''El Sendero de la Mano Izquierda'' (Martínez Roca, 2002) * ''Sentado alegre en la popa. La Dragontea, IV'' (Editorial Planeta, 2004) * ''Kokoro: A vida o muerte. Dragó entrevista a Dragó'' (La Esfera de los Libros, 2005) * ''Muertes paralelas'' (Editorial Planeta, 2006) * ''Libertad, fraternidad, desigualdad. Derechazos'' with Antonio Ruiz Vega (Editorial Áltera, 2007) * ''Diario de la Noche. Los textos más polémicos del informativo nocturno más personal'' (Editorial Planeta, 2007) * ''Y si habla mal de España... es español'' (Editorial Planeta, 2008) * ''Soseki. Inmortal y tigre'' (Editorial Planeta, 2009) * ''Dios los cría...y ellos hablan de sexo, drogas, España, corrupción...'' with

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(Editorial Planeta, 2010) * ''El lobo feroz'' (Editorial Áltera, 2011) * ''Esos días azules. Memorias de un niño raro'' (Editorial Planeta, 2011) * ''Pacto de sangre'' with Ayanta Barilli (Editorial Planeta, 2013) * ''La canción de Roldán: Crimen y castigo'' (Editorial Planeta, 2015) * ''Shangri-La: El elixir de la eterna juventud'' (Editorial Planeta, 2016) * ''Santiago Abascal. España vertebrada'' (Editorial Planeta, 2019) * ''España guadaña. Arderéis como en el 36'' (con prefacio de

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y epílogo de

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) (Editorial Almuzara, 2019) * ''Galgo corredor. Los años guerreros. 1953-1964'' (Editorial Planeta, 2020) * ''Habáname'' (Harkonnen Books, 2021) * ''Un paseo por el honor y la muerte (Editorial Almuzara, 2022)

Awards

* Adopted Son of

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(1992)

References

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