José María Requena

José María Requena Barrera (Carmona, Sevilla, April 18, 1925 - Seville, July 13, 1998) was a Spanish novelist, poet, essayist and journalist. Biography

Graduated in law from the University of Seville and graduated in journalism from the Official Journalism School of Madrid. He was founder next to a group of young sevillian poets of the magazine Guadalquivir, first after the Spanish civil war. In 1955, with "La sangre por las cosas", he managed to be a finalist for the Adonais Prize for poetry and this work is published in the prestigious Agora Collection. His first journalistic destination was in La Gaceta del Norte, in Bilbao, which retained him in Basque lands until 1964, the year he returned to Seville, first as deputy director of El Correo de Andalucía and between 1975 and 1978 as director, in full political transition Spanish. From 1978 onwards, apart from active journalism, he devoted himself entirely to literary production.

Before, in 1972, he had won the Nadal Prize for novel with his first work, El cuajarón. To this award are added others, such as the Aljarafe de Cuentos Prize for his work La cuesta and other short stories, in 1979. In 1981 he obtained the Villa de Bilbao Prize with his novel Mahogany Cribs, and in 1983 the Luis Berenguer Prize for novel The oranges of the capital are sour. In 1985, he won the Ciudad de Granada Award, with his novel Agua del sur. In 1992 he obtained the City of Seville Prize for Journalism. He died in that city on July 13, 1998 at the age of 73.

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