Cauti Fernando Iwasaki (born in Lima on June 5, 1961) is a writer, researcher, teacher and historian of Peru.
Biography
Iwasaki is the son of Gonzalo Sanchez, a colonel in the Peruvian army and Franco Cauti Rosa Lila. Fernando is the second of seven children. The grandson of a Japanese who lives in Lima, he studied in school Marcellin Champagnat, a member of the Marist Brothers. Then did his higher studies at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, where he earned a bachelor's degree with a thesis religious symbols in prehispanic metallurgy (1983). Also served the university in the chair of History of Peru (1983-1984). In 1985 he obtained a scholarship from the Spanish government, through which he could devote himself to research in the Archivo General de Indias in Seville. He also served as a professor at the University of Seville. In 1986 he returned to Peru, he married Maria de los Angeles Spanish Lamb, with whom he has three children. In his native Iwasaki was mainly devoted to university teaching. In 1989 he decided to return to Spain, where he received a doctorate in American History at the University of Seville. The topic of his doctoral thesis was wonderful and the imaginary in colonial Lima. He currently resides in Seville. He runs the literary Renaissance and the Fundación Cristina Heeren de Arte Flamenco. He is a columnist for the Spanish newspaper ABC and honorary member of Nocte, the Spanish Association of Writers of Terror.
Characteristics of the literary work of Iwasaki
It has features that make it a rather peculiar piece of literature, beginning with the fact that being original story, Iwasaki write a book in which he talks openly and in detail, but in a fictional and somewhat sarcastic, its continuous and numerous failures loving. However, the text has been a sales success and acceptance by the public deserves, without all the qualifying distinction. However, it is also necessary to stress that Iwasaki's work consistently suggests a remarkable ability in written language, particularly in the use and allocation of securities to each book, with a tinge at times sharply ironic. Iwasaki is multifaceted and capable of moving from one topic to another like that. Thus, sliding of a text on his bad luck in love for another related to what would be his forte: history. Thus was conceived Neguijón where there is also a powerful critique of the Catholic Church as an institution, which extends on the Inquisition and powerful tentacles that it had and deployed in colonial Lima. The book tells of a city on the prevailing obscurantism and mostly revolves around a character: Gregory Utrilla, a tooth-puller that Seville obsessed with catching the neguijón a mysterious worm is supposedly responsible for the evils mouth. Iwasaki recognizes certain important literary references, among which is the Cuban Guillermo Cabrera Infante. He also admitted other relevant references in his work such as Jorge Luis Borges and Julio Cortazar. If you make a thorough analysis of the literary creation of Fernando Iwasaki, it is easy to conclude that in its premium writings primarily historical, being that to some extent logical, since it is the specialty of this author. Despite this, Iwasaki said feel historian and novelist who, more than a novelist writer. The reason for this conclusion is that a writer can write many types of literary genre, but not limited to one in particular. Fernando Iwasaki is, apart from the above, one voracious reader, a bookworm, being such a vocation that helped to gradually become a writer. , As stated in their statements to the press.
Awards received
- Essay Prize 1987 "Alberto Ulloa" (Lima)
- 1994 Pro Football Foundation Award (Madrid)
- 1996 Conference on Latin American History Grant Award (New York)
- Cope Prize for Fiction 1998 (Lima)
- 2008 Award Algaba (Madrid) for his work Republicans. When we must be realistic
Journalistic career
- He is currently a columnist for the newspaper ABC de Sevilla.
- He has contributed to Diario de Sevilla (1999-2000), La Razón (1998-2000), El Pais (1997-1998), Journal 16 (1991-1996), Express (1986-1989) and La Prensa (1983-1984 ).
Work
- Stories Three nights tie, Oxford Ave (Lima, 1987)
- The Phantom of the Glorieta (Huelva, 1994)
- A Trojan, Helena, The Books of Hermes (Bilbao, 1993)
- Peruvian Inquisitions, Padilla Books (Sevilla, 1994)
- Peisa (Lima, 1996)
- Renaissance (Sevilla, 1997)
- Pages Foam (Madrid, 2007)
- A miracle informal Alfaguara (Madrid, 2003)
- Funerary, Pages Foam (Madrid, 2004)
- Freeze your love, Pages Foam (Madrid, 2006) Spain, away from me these
awards - Pages Foam (Madrid, 2009)
Novel
- Book of bad love, RBA (Barcelona, 2001)
- Alfaguara (Lima, 2006) Neguijón, Alfaguara (Madrid, 2005)
Test
- Mario Vargas Llosa, between freedom and hell, Star Editorial (Barcelona, 1992)
- The Discovery of Spain, Ediciones Nobel (Oviedo, 1996); Peisa (Lima, 2000), Punto de Lectura (Lima, 2008)
- My poncho is a kimono flamenco, Sarita Cartonera (Lima, 2005); Yerbamala Cartonera (La Paz, 2007)
- Republicans. When we fail to be realistic, Algaba Ediciones (Madrid, 2008)
- Art introduce Renaissance (Sevilla, 2011)
Chronicles
- The tragic sense of the League, Renaissance (Sevilla, 1995)
- The box of stale bread, Signatura (Sevilla, 2000)
- Sevilla, no map, Editorial Parentheses (Sevilla, 2010)
