Justo Navarro

Justo Navarro Velilla (born 1953)[1] is a Spanish poet and novelist. He was born in Granada, and is a graduate of Granada University.[2] He has published half a dozen novels including Accidentes íntimos, which won the Premio Herralde de Novela,[3] and La casa del padre (1994), winner of the Premio Andalucía de la Crítica.[2] He won the same prize again with his detective novel Gran Granada (2016).[2] He is also a highly regarded poet, having won the Premio de la Crítica for his collection Un aviador prevé su muerte.[3][4] As a translator, he has translated English language writers such as T.S. Eliot, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Virginia Woolf and Paul Auster.[2][5]

References

  1. ^ "Justo Navarro". epdlp.com. Archived from the original on 17 February 2025. Retrieved 21 October 2025.
  2. ^ a b c d "Justo Navarro". UGR Cartonera (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 10 October 2024. Retrieved 21 October 2025.
  3. ^ a b Moret, Xavier (6 November 1990). "Justo Navarro gana el Premio Herralde con la novela 'Accidentes íntimos'" [Justo Navarro wins the Herralde Prize for his novel Intimate Accidents]. El País (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 21 October 2025. Retrieved 21 October 2025.
  4. ^ "Premio de la Crítica". epdlp.com. Archived from the original on 13 June 2025. Retrieved 21 October 2025.
  5. ^ Estelmann, Frank (2021). "Serenade in I-Major : Autofictional Rule and Media in Justo Navarro's Finalmusik". In Ott, Christine; Jacobi, Claudia; Schönwälder, Lena (eds.). Autofiction(s) et scandale | Romanische Studien Beihefte 12. ISBN 9783960915973.