Manuel Vázquez Montalbán

Manuel Vázquez Montalbán was born in Barcelona in 1939 and grew up in the Raval. He studied philosophy and letters as well as journalism, was active in the Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia and spent eighteen months in prison for having supported a miners' strike in Asturias in 1962. A poet from 1967 and a press columnist, he created the detective Pepe Carvalho in 1972 and also wrote about cooking. He received the Spanish National Prize for Letters in 1995 and died in 2003 at Bangkok airport, on his way home.

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• NovelSouthern SeasLos mares del SurManuel Vázquez Montalbán · 1979Literature