The journalist, comic writer and expert in the detective genre novelist Francisco González Ledesma died today at age 88, after two years of facing an illness.
González Ledesma, who was born in Barcelona, Spanish Northeast in 1927, is considered one of the biggest names in detective fiction of social court in Spain, with Manuel Vázquez Montalbán and a group gathered around the Black Week of Gijón, which founded the Asturian-Mexican Paco Ignacio Taibo.
Versatile, the deceased published over a thousand novels, most of the western genre, under the pseudonym Silver Kane, but also romantic under the pseudonym Alcázar Rosa and Fernando Robles, plus he practiced law.
González Ledesma, father of Inspector Méndez, with whom he wrote eleven novels, most recently in 2013, “Worst Ways to Die”, achieved among others, the International Award for Black Novel RBA (2007) and Planet Prize in 1984.
The chapel of González Ledesma will be installed from this afternoon at the funeral home Sant Gervasi, while the funeral is scheduled to officiate morning.
Jram
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