biography
| name: |
Laforet Díaz, Carmen
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pronunciation:
[laforet deeath]
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| female
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| lived:
| (1921– )
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| biography:
| Novelist and short-story writer, born in Barcelona, NE Spain. Her family moved to Las Palmas in the Canary Islands when she was two, where she stayed until age 18, then returned to Barcelona to study first arts and then law. She left for Madrid, where she married the journalist Manuel González Cerezales. She achieved instant recognition for her novel Nada (1944), which was awarded the first Premio Nadal. La isla y los demonios (1952) is a more mature work, but perhaps less effective for being more calculated. Her conversion to Roman Catholicism in 1951 marks a complete change in style. The stories in La llamada (1954) and the novel La mujer nueva (1955) reveal heroines affected by religion. La insolación (1963) is the first novel in the trilogy Tres pasos fuera del tiempo. Other works include a guidebook, Gran Canaria (1961). |
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