Carmen Laforet

Carmen Laforet was born in Barcelona in 1921 and spent her childhood in the Canary Islands. In 1939 she returned to Barcelona to study philosophy, then left to study law in Madrid, without completing either course. Her first novel, written in 1944, won the first Nadal Prize and made her famous at a very young age. She went on to publish other novels, short stories and travel writing, kept up a long correspondence with Ramón J. Sender, travelled to the United States in 1965, and then gradually withdrew from public life. She died in 2004.

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• NovelNadaCarmen Laforet · 1945Literature