| Fernando Lázaro Carreter | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Birth Date: | 13 April 1923 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Birth Place: | Zaragoza, Spain | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Death Place: | Madrid, Spain | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Occupation: | Linguist, journalist and literary critic | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Fernando Lázaro Carreter (April 13, 1923 – March 4, 2004) was a Spanish linguist, journalist and literary critic.
Carreter worked to improve the way the Spanish language is spoken and written, and penned the hugely popular 1997 book Spanish; Castilian: [[El Dardo en la Palabra]] (The Dart in the Word), a collection of articles he wrote on linguistic gaffes in the media. Lázaro Carreter was a member, occupying the Seat R, of the prestigious Royal Spanish Academy (Spanish; Castilian: Real Academia Española), the language's official referee, from 1972 until his death,[1] and was its president for seven years, 1991–1998.[2] He taught at the Autonomous University of Madrid.
He died on 4 March 2004 in Madrid at aged 80 from a multiple organ failure.[3]