Premio Nadal
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Edition 61 (2004) Winner
Antonio Soler
アントニオ・ソラー
Antonio Soler
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- 1956-09-28 （Málaga, Spain）
- Nationality
- Spanish
- Languages
- Spanish
- Residence History
- Málaga, Spain
Career
- Occupations
- Novelist, Screenwriter, Journalist
- Active Years
- 1983-2024
- Affiliations
- Order of Finnegans (founding member)
- Memberships
- Order of Finnegans
- Influenced
- Enrique Vila-Matas
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1983 | Jauja Prize | Muerte canina (A Dog’s Death) | — | — | 受賞 |
| 1996 | Premio Herralde | Las bailarinas muertas (The Dead Dancing Girls) | — | Anagrama | 受賞 |
| 1993 | Premio Andalucía de Novela | Modelo de pasión (Model of Passion) | — | — | 受賞 |
| 2004 | Premio Nadal | El camino de los ingleses (Summer Rain) | — | — | 受賞 |
| 2018 | Premio Narrativa Juan Goytisolo | Sur | — | — | 受賞 |
Jauja Prize
1983
Work:
Muerte canina (A Dog’s Death)
Result:
受賞
Premio Herralde
1996
Work:
Las bailarinas muertas (The Dead Dancing Girls)
Organization:
Anagrama
Result:
受賞
Premio Andalucía de Novela
1993
Work:
Modelo de pasión (Model of Passion)
Result:
受賞
Premio Nadal
2004
Work:
El camino de los ingleses (Summer Rain)
Result:
受賞
Premio Narrativa Juan Goytisolo
2018
Work:
Sur
Result:
受賞
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
Las bailarinas muertas (The Dead Dancing Girls)
1996 NovelA key work establishing his reputation as a key exponent of modern Spanish narrative.
deathdancing girls
El nombre que ahora digo (Soldiers in the Fog)
1999 NovelOne of the best depictions of life in the Republican sector during the Spanish Civil War.
Spanish Civil Warconfusion
El camino de los ingleses (Summer Rain)
2004 NovelAdapted into a film by Antonio Banderas.
summerrain
Adaptations
- [Film] Summer Rain / Antonio Banderas (2006)
Sur
2018 NovelDescribes one day in Málaga through 250 characters enduring the oppressive heat of the terral wind.
Málagaisolationants
Translations
- English (Kathryn Phillips-Miles & Simon Deefholts, Peter Owen/Pushkin Press, 2023)
Bibliography
- 1983: Muerte canina
- 1992: Extranjeros en la noche
- 1993: Modelo de pasión
- 1995: Los héroes de la frontera
- 1996: Las bailarinas muertas
- 1999: El nombre que ahora digo
- 2001: El espiritista melancólico
- 2004: El camino de los ingleses
- 2006: El sueño del caimán
- 2010: Lausana
- 2012: Boabdil
- 2013: Una historia violenta
- 2016: Apóstoles y asesinos
- 2018: Sur
- 2021: Sacramento
- 2023: Yo que fui un perro
- 2010: Málaga, Paraíso Perdido (Essay)
Adaptations
- El camino de los ingleses (Summer Rain, film 2006, dir. Antonio Banderas)
Translations of Works
- English: Sur (2023), Soldiers in the Fog (2023), The Alligator's Trap (2024); others: German, Greek, French, Italian, Portuguese, Rumanian, Lithuanian, Croatian, Korean
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- Key exponent of modern Spanish narrativeVivid depictions of MálagaCaptures confusion of Civil War
- Recurring Motifs
- Málagaterral windisolationSpanish Civil War
Legacy
Key figure in modern Spanish literature, known for depictions of Spanish Civil War and life in Málaga.
In Popular Culture
- Novel El camino de los ingleses adapted into film by Antonio Banderas
Quotes
-
I don’t like reading novels about the Civil War, but an exception was Soldiers in the Fog, written by Antonio Soler some twenty years ago, which blew me away.”
Source: El País (Prof. Paul Preston) (2014)
Trivia
- Founding member of the Order of Finnegans, a literary group honoring James Joyce's Ulysses