biography
| name: |
Sánchez Mazas, Rafael
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pronunciation:
[sancheth mathas]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1894–1966)
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| biography:
| Novelist and poet, born in Madrid, Spain. He lived in Italy for some time, and married there. He belonged to the influential Roman Catholic group of Cruz y Raya and wrote much journalism. He was appointed a minister in 1939 and a member of the Real Academia Española in 1940. His poetry was issued in limited editions and is scarce, but he is well known for two widely separated autobiographical novels on the theme of adolescence evolving into maturity. Their titles are Pequeñas memorias de Tarín (Bilbao, 1915) and La vida nueva de Pedrito de Andía (1951) and possibly more distinguished than the similar autobiographical works of Azorín, Jarnés, Miró, Sender, and Unamuno. |
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