Miguel Ángel del Arco Blanco has received the National History Prize of Spain 2026 for his work ‘La hambruna española: victoria y muerte en la posguerra’ (Spanish Famine: Victory and Death in the Post-War Period), published by Editorial Crítica. This prestigious award is conferred by the Ministry of Culture.
Del Arco is a professor in the Department of Contemporary History at the University of Granada, which is part of the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters. He also coordinates the Master's programme in Contemporary History.
The UGR professor has focused his research on the Spanish Civil War, the post-war period, and fascism, exploring topics such as political attitudes, repression, memory, and the Francoist famine. His publications include works in both English and Spanish, such as ‘Los años del hambre. Historia y memoria de la posguerra franquista’ (The Years of Hunger: History and Memory of the Francoist Post-War) published in 2020, and ‘Cruces de memoria y olvido’ (Crosses of Memory and Forgetting) released in 2022.
