Background
Javier Tomeo was born on September 9, 1932, in Quicena, Spain.
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Javier studied Law and Criminology at the University of Barcelona.
Photo of Javier Tomeo
Photo of Javier Tomeo
Photo of Javier Tomeo
Photo of Javier Tomeo
criminologist dramatist essayist author
Javier Tomeo was born on September 9, 1932, in Quicena, Spain.
Javier studied Law and Criminology at the University of Barcelona.
In the fifties, Javier Tomeo wrote popular literature under the pseudonym, Frantz Keller, for Editorial Bruguera: some novels from the west, horror, and even a history of slavery, as well as other works with pseudonyms of Anglophone origin.
Since his first novel "El Cazador," was published in 1967, Torneo has been placed on the periphery of Spanish literary life, though he is a prolific writer and has received critical accolades for his work. A candidate for the 1999 Nobel Prize in literature, he has never won a major literary prize in Spain, and he suffers generally from a lack of recognition in his home country.
In the eighties he left some novels like "Dialogue in greater" and "Beloved monster," and its literary universe grew in the nineties with the publication of numerous books: "The gallitigre" (1990), "The crime of the cinema Oriente" (1995), "The mysteries of the opera" (1997), "Napoleón VII" (1999), "Contos perverse" (2002), among others.