Education
López Pacheco studied philosophy and arts (Romance languages) at the University of Madrid.
López Pacheco studied philosophy and arts (Romance languages) at the University of Madrid.
His communist sympathies soon became evident and he participated in the fledgling anti-Franco student protests. His 1958 his novel Central Eléctrica discussed progress, workers and social injustice. López Pacheco left Spain in 1968, accepting a one-year position at the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario.
He would stay there until his retirement in 1994, when he moved to Toronto.
He was a professor emeritus at the time of his death. In London he would translate works of English and American poets, as well as publish his own poetry (Delitos contra la Esperanza (1970)), another novel (Louisiana hoja de parra (1977)), a short story anthology (Lucha contra el Murciélago (1990)), and a play (Máquina contra la Soledad o la Scherezada electrónica (1989)).
His Asilo poético: poemas escritos en Canadá 1968–1990 (1991) discussed his political self-exile. Finally, he published Ecólogas y urbanas, manual para evitar un finance de siglo siniestro in 1996.
López Pacheco married María de la Soledad (Marisol) Lázaro Morán.
Marcos, Ana. Quesada, Luis Alberto.
Generation of "50.