Ramiro Pinilla

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Ramiro Pinilla (2005)

Ramiro Pinilla (born September 13, 1923 in Bilbao , † October 23, 2014 ibid) was a Spanish author . He is considered to be one of the most important Basque writers today, but wrote in Spanish.

Life

As a boy, Ramiro Pinilla discovered his passion for literature because he tried to distract himself from the dire experiences of the Spanish Civil War by reading many classics . At first he wrote only for himself, professionally he worked in the merchant marine and later in the municipal gas works in Bilbao, where he had to keep quiet about his political views - he was an opponent of Franco .

At first Pinilla only wrote part-time, but in 1960 his novel Las ciegas hormigas ( Eng . The blind ants ) was published. He received the Premio Nadal (1960) and the Premio de la Crítica (1971). However, he was fired by his employer. Despite the success of his books, he said goodbye to the official Spanish literary business under Franco's government in 1971, but never stopped writing, instead self-publishing his books. They were only distributed in and around Bilbao.

In 2004, Pinilla's family epic “Verdes valles, colinas rojas” was published, for which he received two of the most important literary prizes in Spain, the “Premio de la Critica 2005” and the “Premio Nacional de Narrativa 2006” and, according to critics, one of the most important Spanish novels of the last decades.

His books are set in the Basque fishing town of Getxo , where Pinilla spent holidays with his family as a child and teenager. Here he set his stories in a kind of microcosm in order to depict the tragedy of Spanish and Basque history in the 20th century like a novel.

Over the years, a literary circle called El taller (the studio) was formed around Ramiro Pinillo . This group includes writers such as Jon Bilbao , Willy Uribe , Iñigo Larroque and Biktor Abad .

Works

  • Misterio de la pensión Florrie (under the pseudonym Romo P. Girca) (1944)
  • El ídolo (1957)
  • Las ciegas hormigas (1961), German edition: The blind ants (1963)
  • El Heroe del Tonkin (1961)
  • En el tiempo de los tallos verdes (1969)
  • Seno (1971)
  • El salto (1975)
  • Guía secreta de Bizkaia (1975)
  • Recuerda, oh, recuerda (1975)
  • Antonio B., el Rojo, ciudadano de tercera (1977)
  • Primeras historias de la guerra interminable (1977)
  • La gran guerra de doña Toda (1978)
  • Andanzas de Txiki Baskardo (1979)
  • Quince años (1990)
  • Huesos (1997)
  • La Estación de Getxo
  • Verdes valles, colinas rojas - trilogy (2004-2005):
    • Part 1, La tierra convulsa (October 2004)
    • Part 2, Los cuerpos desnudos (May 2005)
    • Part 3, Las cenizas del hierro (November 2005)
  • La higuera (2006),
  • Sólo un muerto más (2009), German edition: Just one more dead. Detective novel (2012; translated by Stefanie Gerhold), ISBN 978-3-423-24911-9 .
  • Los cuentos ( short stories) (2011)
  • Aquella edad inolvidable (2012).
  • El cementerio vacío . Editorial Tusquets, Barcelona 2013.
  • Cadáveres en la playa . Editorial Tusquets, Barcelona 2014.

Prices

Web links

Commons : Ramiro Pinilla  - collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikiquote: Ramiro Pinilla  - Quotes

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Basque author Ramiro Pinilla is dead. DiePresse.com, October 23, 2014, accessed on October 23, 2014 .
  2. ↑ a b Ramiro Pinilla on perlentaucher.de
  3. ↑ Interview with Ramiro Pinilla on lavanguardia.com v. November 8, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Pinilla, Ramiro
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish writer
DATE OF BIRTH September 13, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Bilbao
DATE OF DEATH 23 October 2014
Place of death Bilbao