Gaspar Sánchez Salas
(b. Campillo Del Río, Jaén, 1960)

Is a philologist by formation, with a Ph.D. from the University of Alcalá de Henares. In 1995 he was taken on as Camilo Jose Cela’s personal secretary, a position he filled until the Nobel Prize-winning author’s death in 2002. Salas was supervised by the great writer for his doctoral thesis, one dealing with the little-known discipline named (and coined by Cela himself) ‘Dictadología Tópica’.

He collaborated closely with Cela on his Diccionario Geográfico Popular de España and Madera de Boj. Gaspar Sánchez Salas’ own books include Diccionario Popular Geográfico de Jaén, (Editorial Carena), Cela, el Hombre a Quien Vi Llorar (Editorial Carena), Cela, Mi Derecho a Contar la Verdad (Belaqva), La Mujer del Héroe (Temas de Hoy) and Maestro Cela (Berenice). He currently works as a teacher of Spanish Language and Literature, writes and lectures on the figure and the work of Cela and publishes articles regularly in Spanish and international journals. Gaspar Sánchez Salas was awarded a distinction by the Junta de Andalucía for his literary trajectory..