Jesús López Pacheco

Who was Jesús López Pacheco?

Jesús López Pacheco was a novelist, translator, poet and professor of Spanish.

López Pacheco studied philosophy and arts at the University of Madrid. His communist sympathies soon became evident and he participated in the fledgling anti-Franco student protests.

López Pacheco first published collections of poetry: Dejad crecer este Silencio, Mi corazón se llama Cudillero, Pongo la mano sobre España Canciones del amor prohibido.

His 1958 his novel Central Eléctrica discussed progress, workers and social injustice. It was short listed for the Premio Nadal.

López Pacheco left Spain in 1968, accepting a one-year position at the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario. He would stay there until his retirement in 1994, when he moved to Toronto. He was a professor emeritus at the time of his death.

In London he would translate works of English and American poets, as well as publish his own poetry, another novel, a short story anthology, and a play. His Asilo poético: poemas escritos en Canadá 1968–1990 discussed his political self-exile. Finally, in he published Ecólogas y urbanas, manual para evitar un fin de siglo siniestro in 1996.