Córdoba, (EFE).- The poet and playwright Antonio Gala died this Sunday at the age of 92 in Córdoba, sources close to the family have informed EFE.
The family and the Board of Trustees of the Antonio Gala Foundation have shown their “deep regret” by communicating the “death of our beloved teacher and founder Antonio Gala”, which occurred during the early hours of this May 28 in Córdoba.
The funeral chapel will be installed in the assembly hall of the Antonio Gala Foundation and will remain open from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. tomorrow so that those who so wish can say goodbye “to the friend, the writer and the man, in the certainty that His work and his legacy will live on forever.”
One of the most recognized Spanish authors in the world
Antonio Gala is one of the most widely read -and most recognized- authors in Spanish, both inside and outside Spain, a writer, playwright, poet and essayist with a complex personality, great elegance and vast culture.
Born in Brazatortas (Ciudad Real) on October 2, 1930, Ángel Custodio Gala y Velasco always considered himself a Cordovan by adoption, having lived a large part of his life in this Andalusian city, which also had great weight in his work and where is the foundation that bears his name, place of his death.
Despite accumulating numerous awards or distinctions as an honorary member of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Córdoba and of Fine Letters and Noble Arts (2008), the Critics’ Award, the Golden Quixote 1972-73, the National Award for Guiones 1973, the Audiovisual Media Award 1976, the Andalusian Letters Award 1989, the Max de Honor 2001 and the Journalism Award from the Association for Human Rights, he never received any of the considered great prizes of Spanish letters. EFE