Barcelona, 1940. The doyen of war reporters is a graduate in law and journalism. He was assistant lecturer in international public law at the University of Barcelona. He has written almost eight thousand chronicles since he began his career as a correspondent in Lebanon, in 1970, where he lives now. He is the greatest and most lucid witness of all the conflicts in the Middle East, and has a deep knowledge of the region and of life. He is the author of various books of essays, poetry and short stories, including El decano: De Beirut a Bagdad, treinta años de crónicas (2006);
Espejismos de Oriente (2007) and Atrapados en la discordia (2009). He has contributed to many newspapers and magazines: Destino, El Correo Catalán, ABC, El País, Cuadernos para el Diálogo, among others, and to radio and television programmes. He is currently a correspondent for La Vanguardia in the Middle East. He has given numerous lectures around the world and has received, very deservedly, almost all the awards given to journalists (Godó, Gaziel, Ortega y Gasset and Vázquez Montalbán), is a Commander of the Order of Isabel la Católica and has been awarded the Creu de Sant Jordi.
LiberPress Award 2010
Tomás Alcoverro received the LiberPress Award for his immense work as a journalist, based on rigour, detailed study, balanced analysis, vast erudition and profound knowledge, accompanied by a magnificent use of language; for his humanism and for his wisdom, because he is a teacher of journalism of our times, an open human being, bridging East and West, an outstanding, brave correspondent, a man who is intelligent, amusing, tender and whose work is essential.