José María Carrascal Rodríguez (8 December 1930 – 3 November 2023) was a Spanish journalist and writer.

Biography

José María Carrascal was born in

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, Madrid, in 1930. He studied philosophy in Barcelona, and in 1959 he began his career as journalist out of Spain. Between 1959 and 1966 he was correspondent in Berlin, working for ''

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'' and ''Pueblo''. Then he moved to United States to begin his literary career, and he also worked for United Nations. He made an hiatus and in 1990 he got back to his activities and he became a columnist for '' La Razón''. He wrote essays about American life and its idiosyncrasy. For his novel ''Groovy'' he won the

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in 1972. In 2021 he won the Luca de Tena Award, and he died in Madrid on 3 November 2023, at the age of 92.

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