Las armas y las letras by Andrés Trapiello

He is currently a columnist for 'El Mundo'. He has been writing regularly in the newspapers for half a century, where he tries to give his vision of reality, his commitment to it. Also noteworthy is his recent 'Madrid', a biography of the city in which he has lived for almost 50 years and which was a great bestseller.

He has worked in art magazines, on Spanish Television, directed the Trieste publishing house and has published novels and collections of poems for which he has received multiple awards, such as the Nadal Prize for 'The Friends of the Perfect Crime', the Critics' Award for his fourth book of poems, 'Perhaps a truth', or the Don Juan de Borbón award for his renowned essay 'Las armas y las Letras. The author of the monumental 'El Salón de Pasos Perdidas', self-classified as a novel in progress from memory of which more than 20 volumes have appeared, studied Philosophy and Letters at the University of Valladolid, where he also worked for the newspaper 'Pueblo' until his transfer in 1975 to Madrid. That's how strange everything is.'Īndrés Trapiello (Manzaneda de Torío, León, 1953) is a novelist, diarist, essayist, editor, columnist, poet and even an original translator (with his 'Don Quixote' updated to current Spanish). I am in Krakow and this is a good day, despite being at the very gates of another war as bloody as that one. And of course I receive it as if it were given to those like my father who entered his conscious life through a door as narrow and tragic as war. When Trapiello, who is in Poland, was quickly asked how he received such an important announcement, he explained to us on WhatsApp: «I see in this award something mysterious and happy that sometimes governs life.

This was decided this Wednesday by a jury chaired by Santiago Muñoz Machado, director of the RAE, and made up of the director of 'El País', Pepa Bueno the director of 'El Mundo', Francisco Rosell the director of 'El Correo', José Miguel Santamaría the director of 'La Vanguardia', Jordi Juan the director of 'La Voz de Galicia', Xosé Luís Vilela and the director of ABC, Julián Quirós. The writer, poet and columnist Andrés Trapiello, the former director of 'Diario de Navarra' Inés Artajo and the prestigious Associated Press photographer Emilio Morenatti are the new Mariano de Cavia, Luca de Tena and Mingote awards, or what is the same: these three names are already part of the golden history of Spanish journalism.

Las armas y las letras by Andrés Trapiello