Jesús Torbado  Jesús Torbado (4 January 1943 – 22 August 2018) was a Spanish writer, journalist and traveller. He was born in León and studied journalism in Madrid. He won the 1965 Premio Alfaguara for his novel "Las corrupciones". In 1976, he won the Premio Planeta for "En el día de hoy", a book about the Spanish Civil War. In 1993, he won the Premio Ateneo de Sevilla for "El peregrino".