Gonzalo Torrente Ballester

Gonzalo Torrente Ballester was born in 1910 in Serantes, near Ferrol. A graduate in history, he was in Paris at the start of the civil war, returned, joined the Falange and then drifted away from it. A teacher and novelist, he lost his post in 1962 for signing in support of the striking Asturian miners. From 1966 to 1973 he taught at the University at Albany, in New York State. Elected to the Spanish Academy, he settled in Salamanca in 1975, received the Cervantes Prize in 1985 and died in Salamanca in 1999.

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• NovelLa saga/fuga de J. B.Gonzalo Torrente Ballester · 1972not translated into EnglishLiterature