Gonzalo Torrente Ballester
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Gonzalo Torrente Ballester | |
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Real Academia Española | |
In office 27 May 1977 – 27 January 1999 | |
Preceded by | Juan Ignacio Luca de Tena |
Succeeded by | Carmen Iglesias |
Gonzalo Torrente Ballester (13 June 1910 – 27 January 1999) was a Spanish writer associated with the Generation of '36 movement.
Life
He was born in
Although primarily a novelist, he also published journalism, essays, and plays. His career as a writer began in Oviedo, but developed largely in Madrid.
Before the outbreak of the Spanish civil war, he traveled to Paris with the intention of writing his doctoral thesis and there he was surprised by the coup d'etat of July 18, 1936. After hesitating, he returned to Spain in October to be with his family. From the bus that was taking him home, he saw the bodies of victims of the repression in the ditches. His father exclaimed by way of greeting: "Don't you know that many of your friends have been shot?". He followed the recommendation of a priest he trusted and joined the Falange.[1] 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 left Spain for a post at the
Immediately after his death, the Fundación Gonzalo Torrente Ballester was set up to protect, study and disseminate his work.
List of novels
- Javier Mariño (1943)
- El golpe de estado de Guadalupe Limón (1946)
- Ifigenia (1950)
- Los Gozos y Las Sombras: El Señor llega (1957) - , Donde da la vuelta el aire (1960), La Pascua triste (1962). Novel prize of the Fundación Juan March
- Don Juan (1963)
- Off-Side (1968)
- La Saga/Fuga de J.B. (1972) - Critics' Prize and City of Barcelona Prize
- Fragmentos de Apocalipsis (1977)
- La isla de los jacintos cortados (1980) - National Literature Prize
- Dafne y ensueños (1982)
- Quizá nos lleve el viento al infinito (1984)
- La princesa durmiente va a la escuela (1985)
- La rosa de los vientos (1985)
- Yo no soy yo, evidentemente (1987)
- Filomeno, a mi pesar (1988) - Planet Prize
- Crónica del rey pasmado (1989)
- Las islas extraordinarias (1991)
- La muerte del decano (1992)
- La novela de Pepe Ansúrez (1994)
- La boda de Chon Recalde (1995)
- Los años indecisos (1997)
- Doménica (1999)
Screenplays
- Night Arrival (1949)
- Surcos(1951)
- Devil's Roundup (1952)
- Rebellion (1954)
See also
University of Santiago de Compostela
References
- ^ unearthing Franco's Legacy, p.15
- Real Academia Española(in Spanish). Retrieved 26 May 2023.
External links
- Media related to Gonzalo Torrente Ballester at Wikimedia Commons
- Official site Archived 2009-12-15 at the Wayback Machine giving biographical and bibliographical material about Torrente Ballester and a good collection of images.