Ramón Pérez de Ayala

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Ramón Pérez de Ayala y Fernández del Portal (9 August 1880, in Oviedo – 5 August 1962, in Madrid) was a Spanish writer. He was the Spanish ambassador to England in London (1931-1936) and voluntarily exiled himself to Argentina via France because of the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature.^[1]

Background

Pérez de Ayala was educated at

After 1916, his novels became increasingly mature and lyrical, his characters becoming symbolic representatives of general human problems. To this period belongs his masterpieces, Belarmino y Apolonio (1921) (translated as "Belarmino and Apolonio"), Tiger Juan (1926) and El curandero de su honra (The Healer of his Honour) (1927).

La paz del sendero (The Peace of the Path) (1903), El sendero innumerable (1916), and El sendero andante (1921), his major poetic works, show the influence of French symbolism. He also wrote satiric essays and dramatic criticism.

Works available in English

• Belarmino and Apolonio (1990) Quartet Books.
  ISBN 0-7043-0109-1
• Honeymoon, Bittermoon (1974) University of California Press.
  ISBN 0-520-01727-7
• Sunday Light. In: Sáenz, Paz, ed. (1988). Narratives from the Silver Age. Translated by Hughes, Victoria;
  ISBN 84-87093-04-3
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• Tiger Juan translator
  OCLC 3253788

External links

• Works by Ramón Pérez de Ayala at Project Gutenberg
• Works by or about Ramón Pérez de Ayala at Internet Archive