Jorge Semprún
Novelist, Author
1923 – 2011
Who was Jorge Semprún?
Jorge Semprún Maura was a Spanish writer and politician who lived in France most of his life and wrote primarily in French. From 1953 to 1962, during the era of Francisco Franco, Semprún lived clandestinely in Spain working as an organizer for the exiled Communist Party of Spain, but was expelled from the party in 1964. After the death of Franco and change to a democratic government, he served as Minister of Culture Minister in Spain's socialist government from 1988 to 1991. He was a screenwriter for two successive films by the Greek director Costa-Gavras, Z and The Confession, which dealt with the theme of persecution by governments. For his work on Z, Semprun was nominated for an Oscar. In 1996, he became the first non-French author elected to the Académie Goncourt, which awards an annual literary prize.
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- Born
- Dec 10, 1923
Madrid - Also known as
- Jorge Semprun
- Jorge Semprún Maura
- Federico Sánchez
- Parents
- Siblings
- Spouses
- Loleh Bellon
(1949 - ) - Colette Leloup
(1958/03/23 - 2007)
- Loleh Bellon
- Children
- Nationality
- Spain
- Profession
- Education
- Lycée Henri-IV
- Lived in
- Madrid
- Died
- Jun 7, 2011
Paris
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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