Francisco González Ledesma
Francisco González Ledesma (Barcelona, 1927) won the Premio Planeta with Crónica sentimental en rojo. He was chief editor of La Vanguardia. He wrote many westerns under the pseudonym Silver Kane. The Francoist regime prohibited his first novels: Sombra viejas and Los Napoleones. He is also the author of El expediente Barcelona and Las calles de nuestros padres, whose protagonist is already the world-weary inspector Méndez, a man from a low background who is pitiless towards the high and mighty. Ledesma’s return to crime fiction with El pecado o algo parecido was celebrated by the critics and won the Dashiel Hammet Prize. Cinco mujeres y media (2005) was very successful in France; Una novela de barrio won the Premio Internacional de Novela RBA. He won a lifetime-achievement Pepe Carvalho Prize in 2005.
Awards:
1984: Premio Planeta. 2007: Premio Internacional de Novela Negra RBA. Premio Mystère (France), twice.