biography
pronunciation:
[baraya]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1897–1957)
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| biography:
| Novelist and short-story writer, born in Madrid, Spain. His political affiliations made it necessary for him to leave Spain in 1939, later settling in England. With the exception of the war stories in Valor y miedo: relatos (1938), his books appeared in English before they found Spanish publishers. He first showed his ability to create a complete character in The Broken Root (1952) and La raíz rota (1953), but his masterpiece is his autobiographical trilogy La forja de un rebelde (1941–4, trans The Forging of a Rebel, 1951). As a respected figure in England, he was invited to write Lorca: the poet and his people (1944) and Unamuno (1952). After his death in Berkshire, his widow Ilsa issued his stories El centro de la pista (1960). |
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