2023-12-20 16:44:31
The journalist and writer Antonio Burgos (Seville, 1943), Favorite Son of Andalusia, died this Wednesday at the age of 80 after being hospitalized due to a complication of a chronic respiratory disease. Burgos, to which the Andalusian Government was going to present the prize for Professional Career in the 38th edition of the Andalusia Journalism Awardsis one of the most relevant figures in Spanish journalism in the last half century.
The news of his death has been reported by ABC, his home for decades. Graduated in Philosophy and Letters and in Romance Philology, he is considered a master of article writing, which is attested to by the numerous and prestigious awards that mark his career, such as Mariano de Cavia, Mariano José de Larra, Joaquín Romero Murube, Luca de Tena and González Ruanoamong many others.
His journalistic career began in 1966, when he joined the staff of the ABC newspaper in Seville as an editor. In those years, he also collaborated in publications such as Brother Wolf and the Quailand served as correspondent in Andalusia for the newspaper Madrid and the magazine Triunfo, representative of the journalism that faced the last years of the dictatorship with a critical spirit.
At that time he wrote one of his most significant books: ‘Andalusia, Third World?’, in which he carried out an analysis of Andalusia in the sixties and, stretching the limits of censorship at the time, expressed his critical vision of the social and political regime in which Spain lived. For many years his voice has been one of the most significant in the defense of the cultural, social and heritage values of Andalusia, a territory in which he developed much of his extensive journalistic and literary work.
Starting in 1977, he consolidated his dedication to writing articles, without abandoning his daily work of writing and writing novels. His column, under the generic title of ‘El Recuadro’, made him one of the most famous journalists in Spain. The ABC newspaper has been his professional home par excellence, except in the period included between 1990 and 2004, when he moved his column to Diario 16 and, later, to El Mundo. In 2004, he returned to ABC, and did it again, with ‘El Recuadro’.
At ABC in Seville he also created the ‘Old Town’ section, in which, under the pseudonym of Abel Infanzón, developed an intense defense of the historical heritage of Seville, in those years a victim of urban speculation. A convinced monarchist, in his writings he has defended the Constitution and the parliamentary monarchy of Spain.
He was also a crier in 1988 at the Cádiz Carnival along with Carlos Cano, with whom he wrote the copla Habanera de Cádiz that the Granada singer-songwriter recorded with enormous success on the album ‘Cuaderno de Coplas’ (1985). In 2008, he gave the Holy Week proclamation in Seville. He is Adopted Son of the City of Cádiz (2002) and Favorite Son of Andalusia (2020) along with the bullfighter and friend Romero job.
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