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Ramón Pérez de Ayala

Died in 1962

Ramón Pérez de Ayala was born in Oviedo in 1880. Educated by the Jesuits, he studied law in his home city, where Leopoldo Alas was among his teachers, then pursued a career as a journalist and writer in Madrid. During the First World War he was the correspondent of La Prensa of Buenos Aires. Elected to the Spanish Academy in 1928, he founded with Ortega y Gasset and Marañón the Agrupación al Servicio de la República, directed the Prado Museum and became ambassador in London. The civil war took him to Argentina; he returned permanently only in 1954 and died in Madrid in 1962.

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