Jesús Torbado

{{Short description|Spanish writer, journalist, and traveler (1943–2018)}}

Jesús Torbado (4 January 1943 – 22 August 2018{{cite web|url=https://elnortedecastilla.es/culturas/libros/luto-letras-leonesas-20180823132814-nt.html|date=23 August 2018|title=Luto en las letras: fallece el escritor leonés Jesús Torbado|website=El norte de Castilla|language=Spanish|access-date=25 August 2018}}) was a Spanish writer, journalist and traveler.{{cite web|url=http://www.lecturalia.com/autor/202/jesus-torbado|title=Biografía de Jesús Torbado|website=Lecturalia|language=Spanish|access-date=25 August 2018}} He was born in León and studied journalism in Madrid. He won the 1965 Premio Alfaguara for his novel Las corrupciones. In 1976, he won the Premio Planeta for En el día de hoy, an alternate history about the Spanish Civil War. In 1993, he won the Premio Ateneo de Sevilla for El peregrino.