Carlos Rojas Vila (12 August 1928 – 9 February 2020) was a Spanish author, academic, and artist born in Barcelona in 1928. His father was Carlos Rojas Pinilla, a Colombian doctor, who was in turn the younger brother of
Atlanta, Georgia, where he led a distinguished career until his retirement in 1996.[1]
He wrote both non-fiction and fiction, winning awards in both categories. His first novel De barro y esperanza appeared in 1957.[
Premio Nacional de Literatura "Miguel Cervantes" for the novel Auto de Fe. The Premio Planeta de Novela was awarded to him in 1973 for his biographical novel Azaña,[3] four years later, in 1977, he won the Premio Ateneo de Sevilla for Memorias inéditas de José Antonio Primo de Ribera. His 1979 work El Ingenioso hidalgo y poeta Federico García Lorca asciende a los infiernos won the Premio Nadal, and in 1984 he was awarded the Premio Espejo de España for El mundo mítico y mágico de Pablo Picasso.[4] These last works are all fictionalized biographies, a genre of which he was particularly fond.[citation needed
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His writing has been translated into English, French, German, Hungarian, and several Slavic languages[5]
