What is Luis Racionero?
[[File:Luis Racionero 2015 (cropped).jpg|thumb|Luis Racionero (2015).]] '''Luis Racionero i Grau''' (January 15, 1940 – March 8, 2020)<ref name=conf>[http://www.march.es/conferencias/biografia.asp?id=706 ] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091213040327/http://www.march.es/conferencias/biografia.asp?id=706 |date=December 13, 2009 }}</ref> was a Spanish essayist. He studied engineering and economics at the [[University of Barcelona]] and urban studies at the [[University of California Berkeley]].<ref name=conf/> He was director of Spain's national library and of the Spanish College (''Colegio de España'') in Paris.<ref name=conf/> He worked with newspapers including ''[[El País]]'', ''[[La Vanguardia]]'' and [[Mundo Deportivo]]. He wrote both in [[Catalan language|Catalan]] and in [[Spanish language|Spanish]]. In 1999 he won the [[Fernando Lara Novel Award]] for his then-unpublished work ''La sonrisa de la Gioconda''.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://elpais.com/diario/1999/09/18/cultura/937605606_850215.html |title=Luis Racionero gana el Fernando Lara con una biografía novelada de Da Vinci |trans-title=Luis Racionero Wins the Fernando Lara with a Biographical Novel of Da Vinci |first=Maria José |last=Carrasco |work=[[El País]] |location=Seville |language=Spanish |date=18 September 1999 |access-date=5 September 2018}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Racionero, Luis}} [[Category:1940 births]] [[Category:2020 deaths]] [[Category:Spanish essayists]] [[Category:Spanish journalists]] {{bio-stub}}