Julio Llamazares

Julio Llamazares (* 1955 in Vegamian, Spain ) is a Spanish author.

Life

He was born 1955 in Vegamian, a small secluded village in the province of León in northwestern Spain, the son of an elementary school teacher and spent his childhood. The village has disappeared since June 23, 1969, the waters of the reservoir Juan Benet. Many of his novels are set in his home region and deal with the loneliness and seclusion in the northern Spanish mountains. Because of this issue takes Llamazares in the Spanish contemporary literature a special position, since he is one of the few authors who have dealt with the rural and peripheral regions of Spain and its demise. Thus, he focuses on the rural-urban migration in Spain and draws attention to the associated ruthless modernization process.

With 12 years Llamazares left his home region and attended a boarding school in Madrid. After graduating from high school, he decided to study the main law. Today, however, he has worked primarily as a journalist, author and screenwriter in Madrid and León.

Work

After his first two books of poetry, La lentitud de los bueyes (1979) and Memoria de la nieve (1982 ) he was in 1985 with Luna de lobos (German Wolf Moon, 1991), a successful novelist. Characterized his works are characterized by a partly depressing hard and gripping narrative style. The big breakthrough came in 1988 with his novel La lluvia amarilla (Eng. The Yellow Rain, 1991) about an old man in a deserted village in the Pyrenees. The book had to show 15 runs in the first three years after publication. In 1994 he published his novel Escenas de cine mudo (German silent film scenes, 1998) about a childhood in a mining village.

Llamazares has also narratives such as En mitad de ninguna parte (1995 ), chronicles like El Burial de Genarín (1981) and an anthology of Madrid, Los viajeros de Madrid ( 1998) was published. His journalistic work are collected in En Babia (1991) and Nadie escucha. In addition, he has published travel accounts such as El río del olvido (1990) and Tras -os- Montes (1998), in which he usually writes about forgotten land. His work flowers from another world (sp. Flores de otro mundo, 1999) was filmed and was seen in 2001 in the German cinemas.

Works

• La lentitud de los bueyes. (Eng. The slowness of the Ox 1979. poems), Suhrkamp Verlag, ISBN 3-518-39580-7.
• Luna de lobos. (German Wolf Moon in 1985; .. ger 1991 novel), Suhrkamp Verlag, ISBN 3-518-38705-7.
• Escenas de cine mudo. (German silent movie scenes 1998. novel), Suhrkamp Verlag, ISBN 3-518-12044-1.
• Roses made ​​of stone - Spanish cathedrals of Santiago to Segovia. translated by Astrid Böhringer. Hanser, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-446-23746-9.