Background
José Lozano was born on May 13, 1930, in Langa, Ávila, Castilla y Leon.
1979
José Lozano
C/Plaza de Santa Cruz, 8, 47002 Valladolid, Spain
José Lozano studied at Universidad de Valladolid.
37008 Salamanca, Spain
José Lozano studied at Universidad de Salamanca.
Av. Séneca, 2, 28040 Madrid, Spain
José Lozano studied at Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
José Lozano
José Lozano
José Lozano
José Lozano
José Lozano
José Lozano
José Lozano was born on May 13, 1930, in Langa, Ávila, Castilla y Leon.
José Lozano graduated from the Universidad de Valladolid. Also, he studied at the Universidad de Salamanca and Universidad Complutense de Madrid in 1962.
After education, José Lozano became a journalist. In 1958 he started to work at the Spanish daily newspaper, El Norte de Castilla. Lozano served as an editor in 1962-1978, a deputy editor in 1978-1979, and a chief editor in 1980, until his retirement in 1995. He has also been a regular contributor to other national and regional newspapers (El País, ABC and La Razón, the Vocento and Promecal groups) as well as Destino magazine.
Additionally, José Lozano was a writer. He was the author of novels, essays, poetry, and diaries. Lozano's first novel was Historia de un otoño, which tells the story of a group of women religious in 17th century France whose resistance to royal authority led to the destruction of the Abbey of Port-Royal des Champs. El sambenito narrates the drama of the last trial held by the Spanish Inquisition in the late 18th century, in which Pablo de Olavide was condemned for impiety and heresy. Lozano also published several novels set in the period of the Spanish Civil War and the postwar period: La salamandra, Duelo en la Casa Grande, Un hombre en la raya, Retorno de un cruzado, and Se llamaba Carolina. Recreations of Biblical stories also figure prominently in the author's work, in numerous short stories and novels such as Sara de Ur, El viaje de Jonás, Libro de visitantes, and Abram y su gente.
Other writings deal with social and religious questions, old and new: Parábolas y circunloquios de Rabí Isaac Ben Yehuda, La boda de Ángela, Las sandalias de plata, Los compañeros, Ronda de noche, Las señoras, Los lobeznos, Carta de Tesa, and Agua de Noria. Besides, Lozano has dedicated three works of fiction to prominent figures of Spanish literature, San Juan de la Cruz, Miguel de Cervantes, and Santa Teresa. Lozano's work of artistic and literary endeavor has reached thousands of readers, who have discovered in them the richness of his world and his artistry, and they have also opened a space for freedom within the Spanish cultural scene. Today José Lozano can be considered a teacher of contemporary Spanish writers.
Quotations: "Being a writer - or writer as I like to say to remove packaging from a trade that is so modest at the end of the day - means walking in all those responsibilities of the language to name the world, as from what we call literature is named, and John Keats explains to us so beautifully when he tells us that we must do it, having our feet in the home garden and touching with a finger in the spheres of the sky."