Gonzalo Torrente Ballester
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1910 – 1999
Who was Gonzalo Torrente Ballester?
Gonzalo Torrente Ballester was a Spanish Galician writer in Spanish language associated with the Generation of '36 movement. He was born in Serantes, Ferrol, Galicia, and received his first education there, subsequently attending the universities of Santiago de Compostela and Oviedo.
Although primarily a novelist, he also published journalism, essays, and plays. His career as a writer began in Oviedo, but developed largely in Madrid.
After moving around frequently in the later 1920s and early 1930s, including a period in Paris, he returned to Spain and linked himself to Franco's Falange party. He " was an enthusiaistic Falangist and Francoist idelologue". His first novel, Javier Mariño, appeared in 1943, and he continued to publish novels almost until his death, receiving major prizes for some of them.
Despite his affiliation to the Falangists, from 1939, when he returned to Santiago to take up a university post, he increasingly distanced himself from the party. He joined in protests in favour of striking Asturian miners in 1962, and was expelled from his teaching post at the university as a result. In the mid-1960s he had a number of problems with government censors.
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- Born
- Jun 13, 1910
Ferrol - Spouses
- Josefina Malvido Lorenzo
( - 1958) - María Fernanda Sánchez-Guisande Caamaño
(1960/05 - )
- Josefina Malvido Lorenzo
- Children
- Nationality
- Spain
- Profession
- Died
- Jan 27, 1999
Salamanca
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on July 23, 2013
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