biography
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González Anaya, Salvador
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pronunciation:
[gonthahleth aniya
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| male
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| lived:
| (1879–1955)
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| biography:
| Poet, novelist, and official historian of Málaga, born in Málaga, S Spain. His memorable novels and cuadros de costumbres of his native region worthily continued the tradition established by Estébanez Calderón. Beginning as a regional poet in Cantos sin eco (1899) and Medallones (1900), he quickly made a reputation with his fiction, including Rebelión (1905), La sangre de Abel (1915), El castillo de vas y no volverás (1921), Las brujas de la ilusión (1923), Nido de cigüeñas (1927) set in Écija, La oración de la tarde (1929) set in Granada, Nido real de gavilanes (1931) set in Baeza, Los naranjos de la Mezquita (1933) set in Córdoba, Luna de plata (1942), and Luna de sangre (1944). He was elected to the Real Academia Española in 1948, the year in which his Obras completas appeared. |
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