Luis Racionero

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Luis Racionero i Grau (January 15, 1940 – March 8, 2020)[1] was a Spanish essayist. He studied engineering and economics at the University of Barcelona and urban studies at the University of California Berkeley.[1]

He was director of Spain's national library and of the Spanish College (Colegio de España) in Paris.[1] He worked with newspapers including El País, La Vanguardia and Mundo Deportivo. He wrote both in Catalan and in Spanish.

In 1999 he won the Fernando Lara Novel Award for his then-unpublished work La sonrisa de la Gioconda.[2]

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  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 [1] Archived December 13, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
  2. Carrasco, Maria José (18 September 1999). "Luis Racionero gana el Fernando Lara con una biografía novelada de Da Vinci" [Luis Racionero Wins the Fernando Lara with a Biographical Novel of Da Vinci]. El País (in Spanish). Seville. Retrieved 5 September 2018.