Background

José Lozano was born on May 13, 1930, in Langa, Ávila, Castilla y Leon.

Education

José Lozano graduated from the Universidad de Valladolid. Also, he studied at the Universidad de Salamanca and Universidad Complutense de Madrid in 1962.

Career

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.

Achievements

• José Lozano was best known as a writer and editor. He served at the Spanish daily newspaper, El Norte de Castilla, for almost fifty years. As a writer, his work included more than fifty writings, which have translated into French, German, Italian, English, Czech, Russian, Icelandic and Dutch.
  
  Moreover, José Lozano was a holder of several awards. In 1988 he got the Premio de la Crítica de narrativa castellana for the book, El grano de maíz rojo, and the Premio Castilla y León de las Letras. Lozano also received the Premio Luca de Tena de Periodismo for the book, El eterno retablo de las maravillas, in 1994, the Medalla de Oro al Mérito en las Bellas Artes in 1998, and the Premio Nacional de Periodismo Miguel Delibes in 2000. In 2002, Jiménez Lozano got the most important Spanish literary honor, the Premio Cervantes. In 2017, Pope Francis granted him the Medalla Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice. Besides, José Lozano earned the Medalla de Oro de la Provincia de Ávila in 2019.
  
  

Works

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  • La ronquera de Fray Luis y otras inquisiciones 1973
  • Sobre judíos, moriscos y conversos 1982
  • Guía espiritual de Castilla 1984
  • Juan XXIII 1985
  • Ávila 1988
  • Los ojos del icono 1988
  • Una estancia holandesa 1998
  • Fray Luis de León 2001
  • El narrador y sus historias 2003
  • Historia de un otoño 1971
  • El sambenito 1972
  • La salamandra 1973
  • Duelo en la Casa Grande 1982
  • Parábolas y circunloquios de Rabí Isaac Ben Yehuda 1985
  • Sara de Ur 1989
  • Estampas y memorias 1990
  • El mudejarillo 1992
  • Relación topográfica 1993
  • La boda de Ángela 1993
  • Teorema de Pitágoras 1995
  • Las sandalias de plata 1996
  • Ronda de noche 1998
  • Las señoras 1999
  • Maestro Huidobro 1999
  • Un hombre en la raya 2000
  • Los lobeznos 2000
  • El viaje de Jonás 2002
  • Carta de Tesa 2004
  • Las gallinas del Licenciado 2005
  • Libro de visitantes 2007
  • Agua de noria 2008
  • El santo de mayo 1976
  • Los Grandes Relatos 1992
  • El cogedor de acianos 1993
  • Un dedo en los labios 1996
  • El ajuar de mamá 2006
  • La piel de los tomates 2007
  • Libro de visitantes 2007
  • El azul sobrante 2009
  • Un pintor de Alejandría 2010
  • Los tres cuadernos rojos 1985
  • Segundo abecedario 1992
  • La luz de una candela 1996
  • Los cuadernos de letra pequeña 2003
  • Los cuadernos de Rembrandt 2010
  • Impresiones provinciales 2016
  • Tantas devastaciones 1992
  • Un fulgor tan breve 1995
  • El tiempo de Eurídice 1996
  • Pájaros 2000
  • Elegías menores 2002
  • Elogios y celebraciones 2005
  • La estación que gusta al cuco 2010
  • El precio 2013

Views

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."

References

• La imaginación agónica de Jiménez Lozano
  1991
• Homenaje a José Jiménez Lozano
  2006