Camilo José Cela

Camilo José Cela was born in 1916 in Iria Flavia, in Galicia, to a Galician father and a Galician mother of English and Italian descent. Treated for tuberculosis in 1931 at the Guadarrama sanatorium, he read widely there. A soldier on the Nationalist side during the Civil War, he was wounded, then worked as a censor in 1943. Settled in Mallorca from 1954, he founded a literary review there. He received the Prince of Asturias Award in 1987, the Nobel Prize in 1989 and the Cervantes Prize in 1995, was made Marquis of Iria Flavia in 1996 and died in Madrid in 2002.

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• NovelThe HiveLa colmenaCamilo José Cela · 1951Literature