The popular writer Fernando Sánchez Dragó died this morning of a heart attack at the age of 86 at his home in Castilfrío de la Sierra (Soria), family sources have informed the EFE news agency.
Born in 1936 in Madrid, he was the author of more than forty books including essays and novels, and had achieved notable popularity as the presenter of several television programs related to culture, and also for his public interventions -usually controversial- referring to such matters. varied as politics, customs or sexuality, among others. He was a regular columnist for El Mundo and a commentator in various media.
With a degree in Romance Philology and Modern Languages, Sánchez Dragó was a professor of Spanish Language, Literature and History at universities in Japan, Senegal, Morocco and Kenya. His literary and cultural activity has been awarded several times. He won the 1979 National Essay Award with the monumental four-volume work Gárgoris y Habidis. A magical history of Spain.
In a recent intervention, he declared his literary vocation: "Everything I have done in life has been to write," he maintained. Some of his best-known novels have been Eldorado, The Sources of the Nile, The Way of the Heart, The Labyrinth Test (Planeta Award), Parallel Deaths (Fernando Lara Novel Award 2006) or Soseki, Immortal and Tigers.
Likewise, he was awarded the Ondas Award with El mundo por montera and the National Award for the Promotion of Reading with Black on White, both spaces for cultural and literary dissemination. She directed the nightly news program of Telemadrid Diario de la noche. Her journalistic work is partially collected in the four volumes of La Dragontea and El Lobo Feroz.
In the field of politics, despite his youth communism, he has highlighted his evolution to more conservative positions. In recent times, he has approached Vox and, in fact, the last time an audience was seen of him was in the motion of censure of this party against Pedro Sánchez, starring Ramon Tamames. Sánchez Dragó himself is the one who had the idea and proposed the name of Tamames to Santiago Abascal's party.
Just two hours before the tragic news was released, the writer shared a greeting on his social networks:
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