Severiano Fernández
Severiano Fernández Nicolás (born 1919) is a Spanish writer. He was born in Montejos, León. Writing in a social realist vein, he was a finalist for the very first edition of the Premio Planeta with his 1952 novel Tierra de promisión. That same year - something of an annus mirabilis for him - he won the Premio Selecciones de Lengua Española for his book El desahucio, and was a finalist for the Premio Nadal for La ciudad sin horizontes, which remains unpublished to this day.[1]
Other major works include Las muertes inútiles, Después de la tormenta, Las influencias and Crónica de un juez. As late as 2003, he published a true crime book titled Juicios de faltas. He also worked as a screenwriter for television and cinema.
He published his memoirs in 1998. His life and work has been studied by Natalia Álvarez Méndez, a scholar at the University of León. As of 2018, he was still living, having turned 99 that September.[2][3]