Luis Goytisolo

Luis Goytisolo Gay (17 March 1935 – 12 July 2026) was a Spanish Catalan writer in the Spanish language. He was best known for his tetralogy Antagony, which was published between 1973 and 1981. Goytisolo was a member of the Real Academia Española.

Life and career Goytisolo was born in Barcelona on 17 March 1935. He is the younger brother to José Agustín Goytisolo and Juan Goytisolo. He started studying law in 1953 but quit shortly afterwards to dedicate himself to literature and a political struggle against Francoist Spain.

His tetralogy Antagony is considered by El Mundo to be one of the best novels of the 20th century. In 2012 it was published in a single book.

In March 2015 Goytisolo donated 57 boxes of his personal archives to the Biblioteca Nacional de España.

Awards and honours In 1958 Goytisolo became the inaugural winner of the Premio Biblioteca Breve for his novel Las afueras.

In 1993 Goytisolo won the Premio Nacional de Narrativa for his book Estatua con palomas.

Selected works Las afueras (1958) , consisting of: Recuento (1973), Los verdes de mayo hasta el mar (1976), La cólera de Aquiles (1979), Teoría del conocimiento (1981). Antagony, trans. Brendan Riley (Dalkey Archive, 2022): Recounting; The Greens of May Down to the Sea; The Wrath of Achilles; Theory of Knowledge. The first volume, Recounting, was published previously by Dalkey Archive Press in 2017. Estela de fuego que se aleja (1984) Investigaciones y conjeturas de Claudio Mendoza (1985) Estatua con palomas (1993) Placer licuante (1999) Diario de 360º (2000) Liberación (2003) Oído atento a los pájaros (2005) Coincidencias (2017)