Álvaro Pombo

Álvaro Pombo García de los Ríos (born 23 June 1939) is a Spanish poet, novelist and activist.

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Pombo and the second or maternal family name is García de los Ríos.
The Most Excellent

Álvaro Pombo
Born
Álvaro Pombo García de los Ríos

(1939-06-23) 23 June 1939
Santander, Spain
Seat j of the Real Academia Española
Assumed office
20 June 2004[lower-alpha 1]
Preceded byPedro Laín Entralgo

Born in Santander, Cantabria, he studied at the Complutense University of Madrid and received a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy at Birkbeck, University of London, where he lived between 1966 and 1977. His first book of poetry, Protocolos, was published in 1973, and four years later he won the El Bardo prize for his 1977 Variaciones. Returning to Spain that year, he published a collection of short stories, Relatos sobre la falta de sustancia, many of which contained homosexual characters and themes.

Pombo was elected to seat j of the Real Academia Española on 19 December 2002, he took up his seat on 20 June 2004.[1]

Prizes and Rewards
  • In October 2006, Pombo was awarded the Premio Planeta literary prize for his novel La fortuna de Matilda Turpin.
  • In 2012 he was awarded the Premio Nadal for his novel El temblor del héroe.

Works
Novels
  • El héroe de las mansardas de Mansard (1983)
  • El hijo adoptivo (1986)
  • Los delitos insignificantes (1986)
  • El parecido (1988)
  • El metro de platino iridiado (1990)
  • Aparición del eterno femenino contada por S. M. el Rey (1993)
  • Telepena de Cecilia Cecilia Villalobo (1995)
  • Vida de san Francisco de Asís (1996)
  • Donde las mujeres (1996)
  • La cuadratura del círculo (1999)
  • El cielo raso (2001)
  • Una ventana al norte (2004)
  • Contra natura (2005)
  • La fortuna de Matilda Turpin (2006)
  • Virginia o el interior del mundo (2009)
  • La previa muerte del lugarteniente Aloof (2009)
  • El temblor del héroe (2012)
Short stories
  • Relatos sobre la falta de sustancia (1977)
  • Cuentos reciclados (1997)
Poetry
  • Protocolos (1973)
  • Variaciones (1977)
  • Hacia una constitución poética del año en curso (1980)
  • Protocolos para la rehabilitación del firmamento (1992)
  • Protocolos, 1973-2003 (2004)
  • Los enunciados protocolarios (2009)
Essays
  • Alrededores (2002)

Notes
  1. Elected on 19 December 2002

References
  1. "Álvaro Pombo" (in Spanish). Real Academia Española. Archived from the original on 19 July 2014. Retrieved 14 April 2016.
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