Villar Raso, Manuel, 1936-2015 (Nombre personal)

His Mar ligeramente sur, 1976.

Wikipedia, Aug. 6, 2021 (Manuel Villar Raso (Ólvega, November 27, 1936-Granada, November 23, 2015) was a Spanish teacher and novelist. He had a doctorate in American literature from the University of Madrid and a Master of Arts from the University of New York. He was a finalist for the Premio Nadal literary prize with Mar ligeramente sur in 1975 and a member of the International Society for the study of contemporary of Literature & Theater as well as the Academia de Buenas Letras de Granada, occupying the chair with the letter K.)

University of Granada, Spain website, Aug. 6, 2021 (Manuel Villar-Raso is a Retired Professor of American Studies at the University of Granada, and lecturer at the universities of Temple, Hayward, and New Orleans. Villar-Raso is also a prolific essayist, novelist and translator of American poetry. With Hiperión and Cátedra, he has published several bilingual anthologies on Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson, and in recent years he has also translated Irish poets such as Theo Dorgan and Eavan Boland. Villar-Raso has published seventeen novels, and the subject which fascinates his imagination in his first novels is violence. He is also the co-author of several television scripts about Africa, where he has spent long periods.)