The writer Fernando Sanchez Dragó (Madrid, 1936) has died at the age of 86 of a heart attack at his home in Castilfrío de la Sierra (Soria), as confirmed to Europa Press by sources close to the author.
Sánchez Dragó has written numerous novels such as ‘Eldorado’‘The sources of the Nile’, ‘The path of the heart’, ‘The labyrinth test’ (Planet Award)’parallel deaths‘ (Fernando Lara Novel Award 2006) and ‘Soseki, immortal and tiger‘; he is also the author of, among others, the essays ‘Gárgoris y Habidis’.
He was the Ondas Award with ‘The world by montera’ and the National Prize for the Promotion of Reading with ‘Black on white’. He directed the Telemadrid nightly news program ‘Diario de la noche’. He also directedThe White Nights’ and was a columnist, reporter and regular signature in ‘El Mundo’.
Sánchez Dragó was born in Madrid in 1936, although He has been the adoptive son of Soria since 1992. At the age of five he founded, directed and wrote an autograph newspaper: ‘La nueva España’.
Graduated in Romance Philology and Modern Languages (Italian Section), he has been a professor of Spanish Language, Literature and History at universities in various countries such as Japan, Senegal, Morocco and Kenya, as well as directing Summer Courses in El Escorial, Almería, Seville, Cuenca and Avila.
As a writer, he has cultivated storytelling, literary reviews, essays, and collaboration in the press and magazines. Since May 2001 he has directed the College of Spain in Paris.
His works include ‘The Path of the Heart’, ‘Parallel Deaths’, ‘Gargoris and Habidis’, ‘The Path of the Left Hand’, ‘The Labyrinth Test’, ‘Sitting in the Joyful Stern’, ‘Magical Story of the Camino de Santiago’ or ‘Soseki: Immortal and Tigers’.
Throughout his life he has been a person committed to various causes, such as his intervention in the anti-Franco riots at the end of the fifties and beginning of the sixties, which earned him five trials, seventeen months in jail and seven years in exile, according to information collected by Europa Press from its website.
Sánchez Dragó has been a special envoy in numerous destinations in Asia, Africa and America as a press collaborator. His literary life has been frequently linked to his work in the media, both visual and written, having also worked on television abroad, such as Italian Radio and Television and the Japanese Broadcasting Corporation (NHK).
He has been a regular contributor to El Mundo, Época, Onda Cero, COPE, and other information media. In 1955 he founded the Aldebarán Magazine; from 1963 to 1967, and from 1969 to 1971 he was a collaborator of RAI (Italian Radio and Television); he worked on Japanese television from 1967 to 1971; He was a columnist for magazines in Grupo 16 publications, where he founded the book supplement ‘Disidencias’, on SER, on Radiocadena (where he won the Ondas 1988 award for his program ‘El mundo por montera’) and on Televisión Española ( with programs such as ‘Encounters with Letters’, ‘Tauromagia’, ‘National Library’, ‘La Noche – El Mundo por Montera’, ‘La Tabla Redonda’, ‘Black on White’).
Between 2004 and 2012 he directed and presented the literary program ‘Las Noches Blancas’ on Telemadrid. He also directed and presented the literary program ‘Libros con uasabi’ on TVE’s La 2.