Pilar Urbano
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- Name
- Pilar Urbano
- Birth Name
- Pilar Urbano Casaña
- Born
- 1940
- Birthplace
- Valencia, Spain
- Occupation
- Journalist, writer
- Education
- Official School of Journalism Pilar Urbano Casaña (born 1940) is a Spanish journalist and writer.
- Full name
- Pilar Urbano Casaña.
- Nationality
- Spain
- Fields
- journalism · literature
- Known for
- La Reina
- Languages
- Spanish
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• Name — Pilar Urbano • Birth Name — Pilar Urbano Casaña • Born — 1940 • Birthplace — Valencia, Spain • Occupation — Journalist, writer • Employer — * El Mundo • Época • Organization — Opus Dei • Education — Official School of Journalism Pilar Urbano Casaña (born 1940) is a Spanish journalist and writer.
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Pilar Urbano appears in the authority records of the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek as a journalist and writer (born 1940).
Biography
Biography
Pilar Urbano was born in Valencia in 1940. She currently publishes her contributions in the newspaper El Mundo. She is also a numerary member of Opus Dei.
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Pilar Urbano was born in 1940 in Valencia.
Radio and television
Radio and television
• Illustration — Pilar Urbano speaking at a conference In 1988 she collaborated with Encarna Sánchez on her program Directamente Encarna on Cadena COPE. On television she did the same with Jesús Hermida, collaborating on the political tertulia of the programs La noche de Hermida (1993) and Con Hermida y compañía (1994), both on Antena 3. In the 1994–1995 season, she joined the news program Informativos Telecinco, presented by Carmen Tomás. Later she went on to the program La Brújula on Onda Cero (1995–1998), which was led by Ernesto Sáenz de Buruaga.
Works
Works
• España cambia la piel: entrevistas políticas (1976) • Con la venia, yo indagué el 23-F (1982) • El hombre de Villa Tevere: los años romanos de Josemaría Escrivá (1995) • English Edition: The Man of Villa Tevere, Scepter Publishers, Princeton 2012, 378 pgs. • Yo entré en el Cesid (1996) • La Reina (1997) • Garzón: el hombre que veía amanecer (2000) • Jefe Atta: el secreto de la Casa Blanca, Plaza & Janés (2003) • La madre del ajusticiado (2005) • La Reina muy de cerca (2008) • El precio del trono (2011) • La gran desmemoria (2014) • "Pieza 25, salvar a la infanta" (2017)
Books
Pilar Urbano has specialized in the publication of books on current affairs, including subjects such as the criminal plot of the September 11 attacks and the 23-F coup attempt in Spain. She was a direct witness to the latter, from the journalists' gallery of the Congress of Deputies. She was one of the people who remained standing. She later declared: "I had a submachine gun about a hand's breadth from my waist. I did not throw myself to the ground. That afternoon and that night I knew in a definite way that freedom is worth more than life." She has also published two authorized biographies of Queen Sofía and Judge Baltasar Garzón. In October 2008, the presentation of her book La Reina muy de cerca, published by Editorial Planeta, sparked strong controversy in Spain due to alleged statements by Queen Sofia against euthanasia, abortion, and same-sex marriage. This led to an official statement from the Royal Household in which it was said that Pilar Urbano, "after having a private conversation with Her Majesty the Queen, puts in Her Majesty's mouth alleged claims that some media reproduced today," which "do not correspond exactly to the opinions expressed by Her Majesty the Queen, as the author has been duly informed." Before said statement, the journalist denied that the statements were of a private nature. "I have made a book with the Queen, knowing the Queen, not in the private sphere, but in the Zarzuela", adding that "what the queen has said is what appears in my book" and that the Royal House read and gave the book the "green light".
Print journalism
After studying Philosophy and Letters, she soon channeled her professional career into the world of journalism and graduated at the top of her class from the Official School of Journalism. She has worked, as a political commentator, at the newspapers the ABC (until 1985, where she wrote a periodical column called "Hilo directo"), Ya (1985–1989), and now in El Mundo and the magazine Época. In 1994, she was sued for expressing opinions characterized as homophobic in an Elle magazine article.
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- 1.Oneto, José. Pilar Urbano, el Opus, la desmemoria y el relato ficción. Tiempo. 11 April 2014.
- 2.Coll Gilabert, Antonio. De profesión periodista. Editorial Noguer. 209. 1981. 9788427938649.
- 3.León Gross, Teodoro. El artículo de opinión. Ariel. 118. 1 January 1996. 9788434412736.
- 4.Alas, Leopoldo. A la caza. El Mundo. 12 June 1994.
- 5.La nueva programación de la COPE refuerza sus espacios de fin de semana. El País. 9 October 1988.
- 6.Pereda, Rosa Maria. Mingote presenta 'Con la venia. yo indagué el 23-F', de Pilar Urbano. El País. 28 July 1982.
- 7.Garzón, un juez lleno de éxitos y de polémicas. El Mundo. 26 March 2010.
- 8.La Reina tacha de 'inexactas' sus polémicas palabras publicadas en un libro. El Mundo. 1 November 2008.
- 9.Pilar Urbano: 'Lo que ha dicho la reina es lo que aparece en mi libro'. Público. 30 October 2008.
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