Jesús Castañón Rodríguez y María Ángeles Rodríguez Arango

On the occasion of the fifth year of Idioma y deporte in 2004, its editor and María Ángeles Rodríguez Arango, a pioneer who made sports literature a university subject, have set to work to offer the readers of the web a century and a decade of Spanish literature.

Poems, novels, theatrical works, newspaper articles, essays... about all kinds of activities since the Generation of '98 took sport to the field of literature thanks to Unamuno and Baroja.

It is a journey shared by Nobel prize winners such as Jacinto Benavente, Vicente Aleixandre or Camilo José Cela and a long list of writers from every era, and distinguished with all kinds of specialised awards, who have put on their shorts to perform all sorts of pirouettes and movements with words to enthuse their readers.

This exceptional work of documentation is presented to the audience of Idioma y deporte in four instalments. This introduction is given in the month of April and is followed in May by an annotated compilation of studies on this theme. In the months of June, July and September a compete list of bibliographic references will be published, which may be consulted according to alphabetic order, literary genres and sporting disciplines.

Those who follow Idioma y deporte will have information on five hundred literary compositions relating to thirty sporting disciplines and thus enlarge on the information collected by these authors in Creación literaria española sobre deporte moderno (Valladolid, 1997), "Literatura y deporte moderno (1845-1995). Su enseñanza en la Escuela de Magisterio", (Valladolid, 1998) and "Bibliografía española de creación literaria del deporte", (Buenos Aires, 1999).