The writer Jesús López Pacheco was born on July 13, 1930 in the city of Madrid.
After completing the Baccalaureate at the Instituto Cardenal Cisneros in the capital of Spain, he enrolled at the Complutense University of Madrid, where he graduated in Philosophy and Letters. He obtained a doctorate in this degree with a thesis on Pedro Salinas.
With a very early love of writing, in 1952 he published his first work, “Let this silence grow”, A book of poems with which he gets the Second Prize of the Adonais Prize.
In 1954 he was sent to Cudillero, in the Asturian community, to carry out the University Work Service. There he related to the men of the sea, and as a result his work, published in 1961, “My heart is called Cudillero”.
Before, in 1955, he had edited the second of his works, “Perfect mannequin“, with which he gets the Sesame Story Award. At this time he worked in the magazine Index as an assistant editor, a position in which he remained until 1958.
In 1956, Jesús was imprisoned for having tried, together with other colleagues, to organize a University Congress of Young Writers. In this same year, he married Marisol Lázaro Morán, to whom a few years later he would dedicate a book of poems, “Songs of forbidden love”, With which the Omegna Award. As a result of his union with Marisol, his son Bruno was born, a famous filmmaker known as Bruno Lázaro.
In 1958 he published “Electric power plant”, With which he manages to win the Nadal Award, being able to say that his career as a writer is already fully consecrated.
The decade of the 60 is very fruitful for Jesus. He works as a chronicler for a Swedish newspaper, Expressen, and travels through a large number of countries, publishing, in 1967 in Lima his work “The son”. He also founded Editorial Horizonte at this time.
In 1968 he obtained a position as a university professor in Canada, which he held until his retirement.
Of the rest of the unmentioned work by López Pacheco, we will highlight “La leaf de parra”, “Poetic asylum“And two posthumous works,”The hommobile or the desorbitation“And” The time of my life. “
He is considered one of the most important writers of what has been called critical realism.
Jesús López Pacheco died on April 6, 1997 in the city of Ontario, Canada.