Demoiselles d'Avignon) Madrid 1950 (1995), Capital del dolor ("The Capital of Sorrow", 1996) La forja de un ladrón ("A Thief's Forge", 1997) Historias de amor y Viagra ("Stories of Love and Viagra", 1998) In 1985, Umbral began a series of novels about the most important events in the history of twentieth-century Spain, after the fashion of the Episodios nacionales of Benito Pérez Galdós for the nineteenth century. Essays He also wrote a set of very personal essays, under such titles as: La escritura perpetua (De Rubén Darío a Cela) ("Perpetual Writing (From Rubén Darío to Cela)", 1989)* Las palabras de la tribu ("The Words of the Tribe", 1994) Diccionario de literatura ("Dictionary of Literature", 1995) Madrid, tribu urbana ("Madrid, Urban Tribe", 2000) Los alucinados ("Hallucinations", 2001) Cela: un cadáver exquisito ("Cela, an Exquisite Corpse", 2002) ¿Y cómo eran las ligas de Madame Bovary? ("And What Were Madame Bovary's Garters Like?", 2003). His preoccupation with slang is shown by: Diccionario para pobres ("Dictionary for the Poor", 1977) Diccionario cheli ("Cheli Dictionary", 1983, Cheli being to Madrid what Cockney is to London) Las palabras de la tribu ("The Words of the Tribe", 1994). Biographies and autobiographies He also published biographical and literary essays presenting original views about classical authors of the 19th and 20th centuries, such as: Larra, anatomía de un dandy ("Larra, anatomy of a dandy", 1965) Lorca, poeta maldito (1968, about Federico García Lorca; the title is ambiguous, and could be interpreted as calling Lorca a "wicked", or "indecent" poet or one who is "cursed" either in the sense of being "spoken against" or "unlucky") Ramón y las vanguardias ("Ramón and the vanguards", 1978) Valle-Inclán: los botines blancos de piqué ("Valle-Inclán: "White Piqué Boots", 1997) Other biographies are more revealing: Valle-Inclán (1968) Lord Byron (1969) Miguel Delibes (1970) Lola Flores, sociología de la petenera ("Lola Flores, sociology of the petenera", 1971). Although autobiography is also present throughout his journalistic work, several of his works are explicitly autobiographical: La noche que llegué al café Gijón ("The night I arrived at the Café Gijón" 1977) Memorias eróticas (Los cuerpos gloriosos) ("Erotic memories: the glorious bodies", 1992) El hijo de Greta Garbo ("Son of Greta Garbo", 1977). Honours and awards Gabriel Miró National Prize for Stories (1964) Carlos Arniches de la SGAE (1975) Premio Nadal (1975) César González Ruano Prize for Newspaper Journalism (1980) Francisco Cerecedo Prize (1995) Prince of Asturias Award for