biography
pronunciation:
[aldakoha]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1925–69)
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| biography:
| Novelist and short-story writer, born in Vittoria, N Spain. Considered to be the most important writer of the Generación del 1954, after two books of poetry Todavía la vida (1947) and Libro de las algas (1949), he turned to the novel. The other two books in his trilogy, La España Inmóvil, dealt with gipsies (Con el viento solano (1956)) and bullfighting (Los pozos (written 1958)). Other novels include Gran Sol (1957) and Parte de una historia (1967), and among his novellas and stories are Vísperas de silencio (1955), Neutral córner (1962), and Los pájaros de Baden-Baden (1965). He also wrote two travel books Cuaderno de Godo (1961) and El país vasco. He was married to the writer Josefina Rodríguez Aldecoa. |
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