Gonzalo Suárez, Spanish filmmaker and novelist, dies at 92
Author of Ditirambo and El detective y la muerte, and an honorary Goya winner this year, Suárez was also a celebrated football writer under the pen name Martín Girard.
Gonzalo Suárez, one of the reference figures of Spanish cinema and literature, has died at 92, according to El País. He had received the Goya de Honor, the Spanish film academy's lifetime achievement award, this past February.
Suárez built a body of work that moved freely between film and prose, and El País describes him as a novelist who worked at the margins of literary fashion, with a talent for imposing order on chaos in his narratives. Among the titles El País cites are the films Remando al viento and Ditirambo, and the novel El detective y la muerte.
Before cinema absorbed him fully, Suárez was, under the pen name Martín Girard, a football writer whom El País calls a genius of Spanish sportswriting — a second, less known career that the newspaper treats as inseparable from his identity as a writer.
El País has run three separate pieces marking his death: a news obituary, a profile of his literary work, and a piece devoted specifically to his football writing under the Girard byline, underlining the breadth of a career that spanned genres and disciplines for decades.
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