Julio Llamazares

Who is Julio Llamazares?

Julio Llamazares is a Spanish author born in Vegamián, León Province.

He is a law graduate but left law for journalism including radio and TV and literature. His first works were poetry La lentitud de los bueyes first published in 1979 and La memoría de la nieve in 1982. Luna de lobos is his first novel, published in 1985. His prose writing is characterised by a lyrical style and an intense interest in nature; Luna de lobos is essentially a novel of the land, where nature is almost the protagonist. This is something usually found in pre-Boom Latin American literature.