Jesús López Pacheco

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Jesús López Pacheco (born July 13, 1930 in Madrid , † April 6, 1997 in London , Ontario ) was a Spanish writer.

López Pacheco studied philosophy and literature at the University of Madrid. He was involved in the communist student movement against the Franco dictatorship and since 1955 belonged to a communist group around Enrique Múgica Herzog , which was preparing a Congreso de Escritores Jóvenes . López was arrested after attending a meeting with Dionisio Ridruejo , Miguel Sánchez-Mazas Ferlosio , Javier Pradera , Enrique Múgica , Ramón Tamames, and others, at which a manifesto distributed on February 1, 1956, was being prepared.

In addition to volumes of poetry such as Dejad crecer este Silencio (awarded the Premio Adonais in 1953 ), Mi corazón se llama Cudillero (1961), Pongo la mano sobre España (1961) and Canciones del amor prohibido (1961), his main work was the socially critical novel Central Eléctrica . In 1967 López went to Moscow, the following year he was visiting professor of literature at the University of Western Ontario .

He translated works by American and English authors into Spanish and in 1970 published the volume of poems Delitos contra la Esperanza . In 1973 his second novel La hoja de parra was published . In 1989 López published the play Máquina contra la Soledad o la Scherezada electrónica , the following year a collection of short stories under the title Lucha contra el Murciélago . Poems reflecting his political exile appeared in 1991 in the volume Asilo poético: poemas escritos en Canadá 1968-1990 . The volume Ecólogas y urbanas, manual para evitar un fin de siglo siniestro (1996) combines poems and prose texts . Lópet died of lung cancer in 1997.

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SURNAME López Pacheco, Jesús
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 13, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Madrid
DATE OF DEATH April 6, 1997
Place of death London (Ontario)