Ana María Matute

Ana María Matute was born in Barcelona in 1925. Gravely ill at the age of four, she spent some time with her grandparents, at Mansilla de la Sierra, in the mountains of La Rioja, whose inhabitants would feed her work. She began writing very young, and Francoist censorship struck her books hard. Nominated for the Nobel Prize in 1976, she entered the Spanish Academy in the 1990s, received the Cervantes Prize in 2010 and died in Barcelona in 2014.

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• NovelThe IslandPrimera memoriaAna María Matute · 1960Literature