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The writer Fernando Sánchez Dragó dies at the age of 86

The writer and journalist Fernando Sánchez Drag

10 April 2023 15:02 (UTC +04:00)

The writer and journalist Fernando Sánchez Dragó died this Monday at the age of 86 of a heart attack at his home in Castilfrío de la Sierra (Soria), where he was with his current partner, Emma Nogueiro, according to sources close to him, APA reports citing West Oberver.

The novelist is the author of more than 40 novels, including synchronicities, for which he won the Fernando Lara Novel Award in 2006. With a degree in Romance Philology and Modern Languages (Italian Section), Sánchez Dragó was a professor of Spanish Language, Literature and History at universities in Japan, Senegal, Morocco and Kenya. As a writer he cultivated, in addition to the novel, the essay. Your book Gargoris and Habidis. A magical history of Spain (four volumes. Hiperión, Madrid) won the National Prize for Literature in 1979.