Author · Spain
Azorín
Died in 1967
José Martínez Ruiz was born in Monóvar, near Alicante, in 1873, into a well-off family. He studied law in Valencia, more attentive to letters and journalism than to the law, then settled in Madrid, where he wrote for the press and adopted the pseudonym Azorín. He belongs to the Generation of 1898, to which he gave its name. Elected to the Spanish Academy in 1924, he spent the civil war in Paris before returning to Spain. In his last years he became an assiduous cinemagoer, to which he devoted many articles. He died in Madrid in 1967.