After the war, he obtained work as a customs officer in Santander before moving to Madrid, where, in 1944, he married Elizabeth Pellicer before completing his university studies in Economics in 1947, winning, in the process, the award of an "Extraordinary Prize".
Thereafter, he started working with a major Spanish financial institution at that moment, the Banco Exterior de España, whilst also teaching at the university. In 1955, he became the professor of Economic policy at the Complutense University of Madrid, which post he held until 1969, combining teaching with various positions in the Banco Exterior de España, where he reached the post of deputy general manager. Meanwhile, he published academic works about the post economic reality and structural analysis and the European future of Spain and also wrote his first theatrical playA place to live (1955).
Along with other teachers, Sampedro created the Spanish Center for Studies and Research (CEISA), a symbol of intellectual independence which would be closed in Francoist Spain three years later. In 1968, he was appointed as Anna Howard Shaw lecturer at Bryn Mawr College for women in Philadelphia USA
On his return to Spain, he requested a leave of absence from Complutense University and published a satirical play called the naked horse. After the death of Francisco Franco, in 1976, he returned to the Banco Exterior de España as a consultant economist. In 1977, he was appointed senator by Royal prerogative of King Juan Carlos, then, following the first democratic Spanish general election, 1977, he was elected as a socialistsenator, a post he held until 1979.
In parallel to his professional activity as an economist, he published several novels and continued to write after his official retirement, achieving great successes with works like October, October, Etruscan smile, or Old siren. Sadly, his literary successes coincided with the tragic news of the death of his wife, Isabel Pellicer, in 1986.
In 1990, he was appointed member of the Royal Spanish Academy, the definitive authority on the Castilian Spanish where his heterodox inaugural address, From the border[6] related to the subject of his novel The old siren, published that same year, which can be considered a Spanish hymn to life, love and tolerance.
Sampedro died on April 8, 2013, in Madrid, aged 96 years old.
Awards
In 2002, Sampedro was appointed honorary non-executive chairman of the Spanish telecommunications company Sintratel, along with Nobel prizewinner José Saramago. Sintratel is a skit on sin trabajo telecoms or telecommunications workers without work.[7]
On May 24, 2012, was invested Doctor Honoris Causa by the University of Alcalá near Madrid.[8]
Aranjuez
Route followed by wood transporters of the Tagus River in The river that leads...
In his novel Royal Site, Sampedro takes a tour of the Royal Palace of Aranjuez and its gardens. Echoing the sentiments of the geographer es:Thomas Lopez. That Aranjuez is the real and true center of Spain. Aranjuez is also the final terminal of a route followed by timber rafters floating timber to the sawmills along the Rio Tajo in the novel A river that leads.
He is celebrated locally in the José Sampedro Centro de Educación de Adultos and a conference room of the municipal cultural center.
Mientras la tierra gira (1993), collection of 32 short stories, ISBN9788423322565:
"Primer grupo": "La sombra de los días", "Etapa", "Trayecto final", "La sierva y el ángel", "Un día feliz", "El tratado con Laponia", "La felicidad", "El agostero", "Una visita", "El buen pan", "Tormenta en el campo", "Gregorio Martín"
"Segundo grupo": "La noche de Cajamarca", "Viajero", "Arca número dos", "Junto a la ventana", "Fantasía de Año Nuevo", "Un puñado de tierra", "El hombre fiel", "La isla sumergida", "Un caso de cosmoetnología: la religión hispánica", "La bendición de Dios", "Sabiduría sufí", "El llanto de la llave perdida"
"Tercer grupo": "Ebenezer", "Aquel instante en Chipre", "En la misma piel del tigre", "A Erika", "Divino diván", "La Mortitecnia, industria de Occidente", "Felisa", "Iniciación"
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