Jesús López Pacheco

Jesús López Pacheco ( born July 13, 1930 in Madrid, † April 6, 1997 in London, Ontario) was a Spanish writer.

López Pacheco studied philosophy and literature at the University of Madrid. He was active in the Communist student movement against Franco's dictatorship and belonged since 1955 to a communist group led by Enrique Múgica Herzog, who prepared a Congreso de Jóvenes Escritores. After attending a meeting with Dionisio Ridruejo, Miguel Sánchez- Mazas Ferlosio, Javier Pradera, Enrique Múgica, Ramón Tamames and others in which a common manifesto on February 1, 1956 was prepared, López was arrested.

In addition to poetry collections as Dejad crecer este Silencio (1953 the Premio Adonais excellent), Mi corazón se llama Cudillero ( 1961), Pongo la mano sobre España ( 1961) and Canciones del amor prohibido (1961 ) appeared as his main work in 1958 the socially critical novel Central Eléctrica. 1967 López went to Moscow, in the following year he was a visiting professor of literature at the University of Western Ontario.

He translated works by American and English authors into Spanish and published in 1970 the book of poems Delitos contra la Esperanza. In 1973 he published his second novel, La hoja de parra. Published in 1989, López the play Máquina contra la Soledad o la Scherezada electrónica, in the following year a collection of short stories under the title Lucha contra el Murciélago. Poems that reflect his political exile, published in 1991 in the band Asilo poético: poemas en Canadá Escritos 1968-1990. Poems and prose combines the band Ecólogas y urbanas, manual para evitar un fin de siglo siniestro (1996). Lópet died in 1997 from lung cancer.

Swell

• Proyecto filosofía en español - Jesús López Pacheco
• Santos Sanz Villanueva: " El siglo XX: literatura actual", Editorial Ariel, 1984, ISBN 9788434483804, pp. 133-23

• Author
• Poetry
• Novel, epic
• Drama
• Literature ( Spanish)
• Literature ( 20th century)
• Spaniard
• Born in 1930
• Died in 1997
• Man