Felipe Trigo
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Felipe Trigo (February 13, 1864 in Villanueva de la Serena, Badajoz – September 2, 1916 in Madrid) was a 20th-century Spanish writer.
He studied Medicine in Madrid and practised in several villages in Extremadura. He later become a member of Military Health Corps and he was appointed to Philippines, where he was about to die and he had to be repatriated as a Lieutenant-Colonel.
In 1900, he quit medicine to concentrate in literature. Eroticism was the main subject of his works, but he was also interested in social denounces and critics about illiteracy and caciquism with peasants in Spain and specially in the Extremadura of his times in particular.
Felipe Trigo committed suicide in 1916 for unclear reasons.
Legacy
In 1981, the City Council of Villanueva de la Serena created the Felipe Trigo Awards in his honor to recognize the year's best novel and short narrative.[1]
Bibliography
- Las ingenuas (1901)
- La sed de amar (1903)
- Alma en los labios (1905)
- La Altísima (1907)
- La bruta (1908)
- Sor Demonio (1909)
- En la carrera (1909)
- Cuentos ingenuos (1909)
- Las posadas del amor (1909)
- Además del frac (1910)
- Así paga el diablo (1911)
- El papá de las bellezas (1913)
- A prueba
References
- ^ "Sánchez Vicente, premio Felipe Trigo de novela". ABC (in Spanish). Villanueva de la Serena. 28 December 1982. p. 35. Retrieved 23 November 2018.
External links
- Works by Felipe Trigo at Project Gutenberg
- Works by Felipe Trigo at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
- Works by or about Felipe Trigo at the Internet Archive
- Tesis doctoral "La obra narrativa de Felipe Trigo" (Manuel Muelas Herraiz)
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