Las armas y las letras by Andrés Trapiello

But the ample territory covered by Trapiello includes many other similarly important areas. This year volume 19 of Salón was published, and together with the 8 others being prepared for the printer, it is possible that the work will add up to more than 10,000 pages.

Andrés Trapiello (Manzaneda de Torío, León, 1953) is perhaps best known for the collection of diaries titled Salón de pasos perdidos, a cult favorite for a substantial group of readers since 1990. Other UPyD candidates were Fernando Savater and Magdalena Oliva Díaz.“Vivir es, al fin, poder contarlo” The abundant (but incomplete) catalogues of the Harvard libraries list 88 entries, solely of books, under the name of Andrés Trapiello: 66 are written by him in the 22 others, he appears as prologue writer, anthologist, or contributor. He was a candidate for Unión Progreso y Democracia to one of the 3 seats of the Autonomous Community of Madrid in the Spanish Senate in the Spanish general election, 2015.

Trapiello was awarded the Premio de las Letras de la Comunidad de Madrid in 2003 for his contributions to literature, followed by the Premio de las Letras de la Comunidad de Castilla y León in 2010. In addition to the above-mentioned works, he has published many more books, including fiction, poetry, and collections of essays and articles. His next novel, Al morir don Quijote, won the Premio Fundación Juan Manuel Lara in 2005. In 2003, Trapiello's novel Los amigos del crimen perfecto won the Premio Nadal. The book was revised and significantly enlarged for a new edition in 2010. Literatura y guerra civil 1936-1939 received the Premio don Juan de Borbón. Also in 1993, his collection of essays Las armas y las letras.

Trapiello won the Premio Internacional de novela Plaza & Janés for his second novel, El buque fantasma, (1992), and the Premio de la Crítica for his book of poems Acaso una verdad (1993). He is one of a group of well-known Spanish novelists, which includes Julio Llamazares, Javier Cercas, and Jesus Ferrero, who have published fiction in the vein of 'historical memory', focusing on the Spanish Civil War and the Francoist State. This series, under the collective title Salón de pasos perdidos, now extends to 21 volumes and is regarded as one of the major projects in contemporary Spanish literature. His debut novel La tinta simpática appeared in 1988, followed in 1990 by El gato encerrado, the first volume of his diaries. His first book of poems, Junto al agua, appeared in 1980, under an imprint (Entregas y Libros de La Ventura) that he had set up himself with Juan Manuel Bonet.

Las armas y las letras by Andrés Trapiello