biography
pronunciation:
[thela]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1916–2002)
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Iria Flavia near Padrón, La Coruña, NW Spain. He studied at Madrid University, and served in Franco's forces during the Civil War. His first novel, La familia de Pascual Duarte (1942, The Family of Pascual Duarte), was banned for its seemingly gratuitous violence. The range of his work was vast and varied, but he is best known for La Colmena (1951, The Hive), which recreates daily life in Madrid in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War. In 1989 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. |
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