Dionisio Ridruejo

Dionisio Ridruejo was born in El Burgo de Osma, near Soria, in 1912. He joined the Falange in 1933, wrote two lines of its anthem and directed the propaganda of the Francoist side during the civil war. He founded the review Escorial, then left in 1941 as a simple soldier in the Blue Division, on the Russian front. He broke with the regime in 1942; banished, imprisoned in 1956 and 1957, then exiled, he moved towards social democracy and became an opponent. He died in Madrid in 1975.

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• PoetryEn once años, poesías de juventudDionisio Ridruejo · 1950not translated into EnglishLiterature