Álvaro Pombo: “I Am Overwhelmed by Malice. These Polemics, Those of Uclés and Others, Seem to Opt for the Gossip of the year.”

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He has won practically all the important awards of Castilian letters. From the Herralde de Novela to the disappeared Fastenrath, passing through the Planet, the Nadal, or the most institutional ones, such as Critique, the National and, in 2024, the Cervantes. Still, Álvaro Pombo (Santander, 86 years old) does not seem to have been amilanado with success, among readers and critics. The mood and good humor have not disappeared either. One of the w…