Spanish writer Rafael dies Chirbes, author of “On the Waterfront” – El Universal (Venezuela)

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Saturday August 15, 2015 3:31 PM

The Spanish writer Rafael Chirbes, National Critics Award and Narrative, died today at age 66 as a result of a serious illness, according to sources confirmed to Efe Anagram, which published his books in Spain.

His death occurred in his family home in Tabernes in Valencia (eastern Spain) after being admitted to a hospital recently, said Anagram.

Considered among the greatest Spanish writers of recent decades, in the who portrayed mainly to Spain in crisis, Rafael Chirbes (Tavernes de la Valldigna (Valencia), 1949) had he worked as a literary critic, journalist, columnist travel and teacher.

He was the author of nine novels, including two you awarded the National Critics Award in Spain: On the shore (2013) and Crematorium (2007), which drew a bleak picture of society Spanish in times of crisis and the housing bubble.

On the shore, also won the National Award for Fiction, the writer continued to put the knife to Spain marked by the crisis and corruption with the narrative drama of the lives of five unemployed people and their former chief.

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

also was the author of novels Good lyrics (1992) and The Fall of Madrid , and four trials.