At age 56 died on Spanish writer Rafael Chirbes, author of On the shore – LaTercera (Record)

The Spanish writer Rafael Chirbes, National Critics Award and Narrative, died today at age 66 as a result of lung cancer, according to sources confirmed to EFE Anagram, which published his books in Spain. His death occurred in his family home in Tabernes in Valencia, after being admitted to a hospital recently, said Anagram.

Considered among the greatest Spanish writers of recent decades, in which he portrayed especially a country in crisis, Chirbes (Tavernes de la Valldigna, Valencia, 1949) worked as a literary critic, journalist, travel writer and teacher. He was the author of nine novels, including two awarded the National Critics Award in Spain: On the shore (2013) and Crematorium (2007), which drew a bleak picture of the Spanish society in times of crisis and the housing bubble. On the shore , which also won the National Book Award for Fiction, he addressed a Spain marked by crisis and corruption with the narrative of the drama of the lives of five unemployed people and their former boss.

In 1988 Chirbes had published his first novel, Mimoun , with which was finalist Herralde Prize, and in 1996 The long march , with which it began his trilogy on Spanish society that reaches the transition.