Writing in a social realist vein, he was a finalist for the very first edition of the Premio Planeta with his 1952 novel Tierra de promisión.
That same year - something of an annus mirabilis for him - he won the Premio Selecciones de Lengua Española for his book El desahucio, and was a finalist for the Premio Nadal for La ciudad sin horizontes, which remains unpublished to this day.
[1] Other major works include Las muertes inútiles, Después de la tormenta, Las influencias and Crónica de un juez.
As late as 2003, he published a true crime book titled Juicios de faltas.
His life and work has been studied by Natalia Álvarez Méndez, a scholar at the University of León.