Fernando Sánchez Dragó

Fernando Sánchez Dragó (2 October 1936 – 10 April 2023) was a Spanish writer and television host.

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Sánchez and the second or maternal family name is Dragó.

Fernando Sánchez Dragó
Dragó in 2008
Dragó in 2008
BornFernando Sánchez Dragó
(1936-10-02)2 October 1936
Madrid, Spain
Died10 April 2023(2023-04-10) (aged 86)
Castilfrío de la Sierra, Spain
OccupationWriter
EducationColegio del Pilar
University of Madrid
Period1950–2023 (writer)
1970s–2010s (television host)
GenreNovel, essay, autobiography, Travel book
SubjectTravel, literature, culture
Notable awardsPremio Planeta de Novela
Premio Nacional de Ensayo (1979)
Premio Planeta (1992)
Premio Ondas
Website
sanchezdrago.com

Biography

Fernando Sánchez Dragó was born in the Salamanca district of Madrid, the posthumous son of Fernando Sánchez Monreal, a journalist who was killed in the Spanish Civil War by the Francoist Nationalist faction. His father was director of the news agency Febus, as well as director of the agency Noti-Sport.[1]

Sánchez Dragó in 1979

Sánchez was a student at the Colegio del Pilar and at the University of Madrid (now known as the Complutense). A member of the Communist Party of Spain in his youth, he was imprisoned because of his opposition to Francoist Spain and was in exile for seven years.

Sánchez Dragó participated along with other figures linked to Spanish Nouvelle Droite in the Manifesto Against the Death of the Spirit and the Earth in 2002, later forming the Asociación Manifiesto, a meeting point of old and new reactionaries as well as former neo-Nazi group CEDADE members.[2]

Labelled a "new reactionary",[2] he however described himself as an individualist libertarian anarchist. The author of more than 45 books, he won the 1979 Premio Nacional de Ensayo for his essay Gárgoris y Habidis. Una historia mágica de España. This work has been criticised because of its antisemitic content,[3] mostly attacking Ashkenazi Jews.[4]

Sánchez Dragó also won the 1992 Premio Planeta for his novel La prueba del laberinto and the 2006 Fernando Lara Novel Award for his book based on the life and death of his father, Muertes paralelas.[5]

In a 2010 work entitled Dios los cría... y ellos hablan de sexo, drogas, España, corrupción..., Sánchez Dragó bragged about having had sex with two thirteen year-old minors during his time in Japan in 1967.[6][7][8][9]

A noted endorsement in the meeting of the far-right political party Vox celebrated in the Palacio Vistalegre in October 2018, he vowed to support 90% of the party political programme.[10][11]

Sánchez Dragó died on 10 April 2023, at age 86, after suffering a heart attack at his residence in Castilfrío de la Sierra.[12]

Awards

References
  1. "Translated version of: "Ahora soy el padre de mi padre"". 4 April 2017. El País.
  2. Sanromán, Diego L. (2006). "Contra la muerte del espíritu: últimos avatares de una nouvelle droite a la española" (PDF). Nómadas. Critical Journal of Social and Juridical Sciences. 13 (1). ISSN 1578-6730.
  3. Altemöller, Fabian (July 2017). Die spanische extreme Rechte zwischen Metapolitik und Politik: Eine Analyse der Situierung der Nueva Derecha und der Adaption der Nouvelle Droite. LIT Verlag Münster. p. 384. ISBN 9783643137579.
  4. Álvarez Chillida, Gonzalo (2002). El antisemitismo en España: la imagen del judío, 1812–2002. Marcial Pons Historia. p. 478. ISBN 9788495379443.
  5. "Sánchez Dragó gana el Premio Fernando Lara de novela con 'Muertes paralelas'" [Sánchez Dragó Wins the Fernando Lara Novel Award with 'Muertes paralelas']. El Mundo (in Spanish). Seville. EFE. 6 May 2006. Retrieved 5 September 2018.
  6. el Periódico. "Sánchez Dragó reconoce en su último libro haberse acostado con dos niñas de 13 años". Sánchez Dragó reconoce en su último libro haberse acostado con dos niñas de 13 años. el Periódico. Retrieved 26 October 2010.
  7. "Sánchez Dragó reconoce en su último libro haberse acostado con dos niñas de 13 años". EL PAÍS. 26 October 2010. Retrieved 7 July 2019.
  8. "Dragó se retracta: "Nadie se trajinó a nadie"". El Confidencial VANITATIS. 26 October 2010. Retrieved 7 July 2019.
  9. "Sánchez-Dragó: "Juro por mi honor que no he tenido trato erótico con menores"". LA RAZÓN. 27 October 2010. Retrieved 7 July 2019.
  10. Hernández, Marisol. "Vox llena Vistalegre con un proyecto contra los extranjeros, el independentismo y el feminismo: "Los españoles, primero"". elmundo.com.
  11. "Fernando Sánchez Dragó: "Estoy de acuerdo con el programa de Vox al 90% pero Santi Abascal es de costumbres morigeradas y yo soy un libertino"". antena3.com. 17 December 2018.
  12. Muere el escritor y periodista Fernando Sánchez Dragó a los 86 años (in Spanish)
  13. Rodríguez, Juan Carlos (22 February 2004). "Viaje al pueblo "deshabitado"del transgresor Sánchez Dragó". El Mundo Magazine.
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