La fuente de la edad

Premio Cervantes · 2023 · Winner

AlfaguaraJanuary 1, 1986Literary Fiction

Award History

Award	Year	Status	Citation
Premio Cervantes	2023	Winner

About This Book

Set in the fictional region of Celama, a group of elderly men set out to find the mythical fountain of youth, in a richly baroque novel that established Díez's fictional world and won the Premio Nacional de Narrativa.

About the Author

Luis Mateo DíezES

Luis Mateo Díez is a Spanish novelist born in 1942 in Villablino, León. He is a member of the Real Academia Española and one of the most important Spanish novelists of his generation, known for his creation of a fictional world rooted in the imaginary geography of the Castilian meseta and the León countryside. He has worked as a civil servant and has been an important figure in Spanish cultural institutions. Read more →