 He received the Premio Selecciones de Lengua Española for his 1963 work "La ternura del hombre invisible", this was followed in 1968 by the Premio Nacional de Literatura "Miguel Cervantes" for the novel "Auto de Fe".The Premio Planeta de Novela was awarded to him in 1973 for his biographical novel "Azaña", four years later, in 1977, he won the Premio Ateneo de Sevilla for "Memorias inéditas de José Antonio Primo de Ribera".His 1979 work "El Ingenioso hidalgo y poeta Federico García Lorca asciende a los infiernos" won the Premio Nadal, and in 1984 he was awarded the Premio Espejo de España for "El mundo mítico y mágico de Pablo Picasso".