Writer

Miguel Sánchez-Ostiz was born in Pamplona in 1950. He graduated in Law from the Universidad de Navarra, and worked as a lawyer before turning full-time to journalistic and literary work.

Since 1977 he has been a regular contributor to a wide range of press media, with opinion columns, literary articles and travel accounts as well as literary reviews. He currently has an opinion section in the Diario de Noticias, Navarra, and is a literary critic for ABC, Madrid.    He has also produced extensive works of critical edition, prologues and catalogues for art exhibitions, and has given numerous lectures at Spanish universities.

He has received a number of awards, including the National Prize for Criticism (1998), the Euskadi Prize for Literature (1989) and the Herralde Novel Prize (also 1989), and has been short-listed for the National Literature Prize on various occasions. In 2001 he was awarded the Príncipe de Viana prize for Culture for his collected literary works and his personal career. 2010 he received the Euskadi Prize for Literature.    

His literary work includes poetry, novels, travel accounts, biography and essays: Pórtico de la fuga (1979), Los papeles del ilusionista (1982), El pasaje de la luna (1984), De un paseante solitario (1985), Reinos imaginarios, (1986), La negra provincia de Flaubert, (1986), Tánger Bar  (1987), La quinta del americano, (1987), Mundinovi, (1987), La gran ilusión (1989), Literatura, amigo Thompson (1989), La puerta falsa (1991), Las pirañas (1992), Invención de la ciudad (1993), Correo de otra parte (1993), El árbol del cuco (1994), Pamplona (1994), Veleta de la curiosidad (1994), Carta de vagamundos (1994), El santo al cielo (1995), Un infierno en el jardín (1995), La caja china (1996), Las estancias del nautilus (1997), No existe tal lugar (1997), Palabras cruzadas (1998), El vuelo del escribano (1999), La flecha del miedo (2000), Derrotero de Pío Baroja (2000), Los barruntos de la botica (2000), La marca del cuadrante, Poesía 1979-1998, (2000), El corazón de la niebla (2001), La casa del rojo, Diarios 1995-1998, (2001), En Bayona, bajo los porches (2002), “Última estación, Pamplona” (2002), Peatón de Madrid (2003), La Nave de Baco (2004), Liquidación por derribo. Diarios 1999-2000, (2004), El piloto de la muerte (2005), La isla de Juan Fernández (2005), Pío Baroja, a escena (2006), La calavera de Robinson (2006), Tiempos de tormenta (2007) and Cuaderno boliviano (2008).

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