The writer expanded gallery of international awards, including two Pulitzer (for Sports journalist and the independence day), Faulkner (for the day.) And abroad Femina (for Canada)
MADRID.- professional writer Richard Ford made almost by chance. With 41 years, his career in the press was heading to failure, he was unemployed and sat down to think what he would do if he had all the time in the world. That Crisis sportswriter a consecratory novel that introduced the world to Frank Bascombe, his favorite character.
emerged Thirty years later located and as one of the greatest contemporary American storytellers, Ford was awarded today with the Princess of Asturias Award for Literature 2016, which will receive from king Philip VI in the traditional ceremony held in Oviedo in late October.
in this way, Ford expanded gallery awards international including two Pulitzer (for sports journalist and the independence day), Faulkner (for the day.) and abroad Femina (for his latest novel, Canada).
Affected by dyslexia, they say it is a slow writer, but thanks to that very careful. He had a troubled childhood in his native Mississippi. Of the time in which often got into street she fights him was his passion for boxing, that even with 72 years continues practicing.
He graduated in Literature in 1966, but later devoted himself to the right. He became an employee of the CIA. In 1976 he tried his first novel, A piece of my heart, which in his words “did not read anyone.” Five years later he tried his luck with the last chance, as he began to work on what he believed would be his final profession, sports journalism.
The success came when he closed the magazine in which he wrote and his wife She encouraged him to do “something you really enjoy themselves,” according to him. His alter ego Frank Bascombe instantly became an essential character of the current American literature. Featured Sports journalist (1986), Independence Day (1995), Thanksgiving (2006) and the collection of short novels Frankly, Frank (2014). The evolution of Bascombe over these 30 years has been the chronicle of a man in search of the American dream and also the story of a society trapped by their fears and contradictions.
Raymond Carver called ever Ford as the greatest living American writer. It is often considered an heir to Hemingway for his sober style and extreme parsimony and accuracy of their descriptions, always with irony either hand.
Although critics consider his characters as shadowy figures and marginalized, Ford resists that tilden pessimistic writer. “Permanently I put humor into what I do. I think it makes more pleasant the dark parts of the stories. And really is practical because I want to amuse myself when I write,” he said months ago when he traveled to Spain to present Frankly, Frank.
the work of Ford also includes volumes of stories Rock Spring, women with men and Misdemeanors without number, and autobiography flowers in the cracks, all published by Anagram.
Princess of Asturias Award for Letters -created in 1981- awards the winner 50,000 euros and a sculpture by Joan Miró. Have received in recent editions Cuban Leonardo Padura, Ireland’s John Banville, the Spanish Antonio Muñoz Molina and American Philip Roth.
Ford, driven by juries Muñoz Molina and Banville, prevailed in the final round of voting to Polish poet Adam Zagajewski. In the list of finalists included David Mamet, Andrés Trapiello, Antonio Lobo Antunes and Philippe Claudel, among others.
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