Ricardo Serna
Ricardo Serna Galindo (born October 28, 1954) is a Spanish writer and historian.
Biography
Ricardo Serna was born in Zaragoza into a middle-class family. He attended high school in private and public schools. He soon became fond of reading, writing his first stories when he was only fourteen years old. After graduating from high school, he did his military service in the Communications and Teletypes section of the Aviation Army, while preparing for the University Orientation Course. His natural tendency inclined him to study journalism in Madrid or Barcelona, since there was no such possibility in Zaragoza, but family and personal circumstances led him to enroll in the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters in his hometown.
After completing his degree in 1981, he furthered his studies at the universities of the Basque Country (1984), Menéndez Pelayo of Santander (1985–86), Navarra and Salamanca (1986) and Complutense of Madrid (1991–92). Between 1999 and 2001 he brilliantly completed his doctorate, finishing the third cycle with the presentation and defense of his doctoral thesis, entitled Literature and the Masonic Field. The event took place on July 5, 2017 at the University of Jaén. The work, highly valued by the tribunal that judged it, was rated summa cum laude and published immediately by the Spanish University Foundation.
For ten years, Serna worked as a professor of Spanish Literature. Since 1996, he has been a member of the prestigious Center for Historical Studies of Spanish Freemasonry [CEHME, University of Zaragoza].
He became known as a writer in 1990, with the publication of the volume La noche de papel, his second book of short stories. Since then he has published a hundred of his stories and two hundred articles and essays. Numerous magazines have published his work, such as Álabe, Gaudeamus, Rolde, Aportes, Turia, Tiempo de Historia, Imán, Destiempos, La Página, Archivo de Filología Aragonesa and Cuadernos de Aragón, among many others. Serna has been a member of the Asociación Aragonesa de Amigos del Libro (Aragonese Association of Friends of the Book) for many years, and is a member of its Board of Directors.
His literary style have been positively valued over the years by critics, academics and writers of stature, such as Tomás Salvador, Carmen Kurtz, Dolores Medio, Alonso Zamora Vicente or Miguel Delibes among others.
Works
- Relatos del insomnio (1984; short stories)
- La noche de papel (1968–1987) (1990; short stories)
- Los escritores (1995; short stories)
- Masonería y literatura. La Masonería en la novela emblemática de Luis Coloma (1998)
- Es de piedra el poeta (1999; poetry)
- La construcción de la rosa (1999; poetry)
- Los días amargos (2000–2001; novella)
- www.anónimo.es (2001; poetry)
- Caballeros de la luz (2004; short stories)
- El laberinto de los goliardos (2005; novella)
- Estudios masónicos. Cinco ensayos en torno a la Francmasonería (2008; essays)
- Umbral del hechizo (2009; poetry)
- Memorial de espumas (2009; poetry)
- El compás y la pluma. Artículos masónicos de ayer y de hoy (2010–2016; articles)
- La corona dorada. Poesía de iniciados (2014; poetry)
- Inocentes criaturas (2015; short stories)
- Sombras de Madrid (2017–2018; novella)
- Literatura y ámbito masónico. A propósito de la novela Pequeñeces, del jesuita Luis Coloma (2018; doctoral dissertation)
External links
- Official website not in Wikidata
- 1954 births
- Living people
- 20th-century Spanish historians
- 21st-century Spanish historians
- 20th-century Spanish male writers
- 21st-century Spanish male writers
- 20th-century Spanish novelists
- 21st-century Spanish novelists
- History of Freemasonry
- People from Zaragoza
- University of Zaragoza alumni
