Biography
Jiménez Lozano was born in Langa, a village in the province of Ávila. After finishing his studies in 1962, he became a journalist and writer, winning the Cervantes Prize in 2002. Not well known to the general public, he emphasized religious and social themes in both his journalism and his novels.Works
* ''Historia de un otoño'' (novel) (1971) * ''El sambenito'' (novel) (1972) * ''La salamandra'' (novel) (1973) * ''El santo de mayo'' (novel) (1976) * ''Guía espiritual de Castilla'' (essays) (1984) * ''Avila'' (essays) (1988) * ''El grano de maíz rojo'' (novel) (1988) * ''El empleo'' (novel) (1989) * ''El mudejarillo'' (novel) (1992) * ''Tantas devastaciones'' (poems) (1992) * ''La boda de Ángela'' (novel) (1993) * ''Teorema de Pitágoras'' (novel) (1995) * ''Un fulgor tan breve'' (poems) (1995) * ''Las sandalias de plata'' (novel) (1996) * ''El tiempo de Eurídice'' (poems) (1996) * ''Los compañeros'' (novel) (1997)Adaptations
* ''Tom Ojos Azules'' is the basis of a children's opera (2016) of the same name by American composer John Craton, with libretto by José Jiménez Lozano.References
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