Member of the founding team of The country and after 45 years at the head of different responsibilities in this newspaper, Juan Cruz now joins Iberian Press as deputy to the Presidency.
Born in Puerto de la Cruz (Tenerife) in 1948, Juan Cruz has a long career as a journalist, writer and editor. He studied Journalism and History at the University of La Laguna and began writing for the press when he was only thirteen years old, in the sports weekly Fresh air. Shortly after, he joined the editorial office of The afternoon and later to The daynewspaper today belonging to Prensa Ibérica where he grew up as a journalist. At that time He was also correspondent in Tenerife for the newspaper The provincewhich was precisely the embryo of the Prensa Ibérica group.
Juan Cruz was one of the founders of The country, where he also carried out very diverse tasks: correspondent in London, head of Opinion, editor-in-chief of Culture or assistant to the Directorate. Until January of this year he has been linked to Grupo Prisa, where he has also been director of Editorial Coordination, director of Communication of Grupo Santillana and director of La Oficina del Autor.
He has also directed the publishing house Alfaguara and, as a novelist, he received the Benito Pérez Armas Prize for the novel in 1972, with Chronicle of nothing shattered; Azorín Award with Oslo’s dream (1988) and has been awarded the 2000 Canary Islands Prize for Literature and the National Prize for Cultural Journalism. He has also been awarded the Comillas Prize for History, Biography and Memoirs 2009 for scrambled egos. Literary Life: A Personal Memoir.
Has published memory age, Orange, smoke portrait, Sand Knife, The Barefoot Boy Y On the rooftop. Others of his books are serene (stories), Excess baggage (essay), one Memory of El País, the swedish photo, The weight of fame A pending story (novel), against sincerity, the horizon beach (Fate, 2004), I hope October Many times you asked me to tell you about those years, Journalism? This job is worth living for, egos scrambled, against the insult, A crazy job Trip to the Canary Islands, Memory of Mario at odd hours and always with Benedetti (From Publishers Center, 2013), Endangered species Y Jaime Salinas. The office of Publisher.
In 2017 he published a blow of life in Alfaguara, publishing house in which he published his penultimate book last year, first persons, about characters you met. His last book was Polanco Citizen, about the businessman who promoted The country.
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Juan Cruz has been awarded with the Honor Award of the Madrid Press Association and with him Legend Award from the Booksellers Guild of Madrid.
The prestigious journalist and writer had already been collaborating with the Canarian newspapers of Prensa Ibérica, The day Y The provinceand with the diary Clarion from Buenos Aires as a columnist.