Francisco Ayala

Francisco Ayala was born in Granada in 1906. A law student in Madrid, he published his first novels even before graduating, stayed in Berlin in the late twenties, then taught at the University of Madrid from 1933. He served the Republic during the civil war and went into exile in 1939, first to Argentina, where he wrote for La Nación, then to Puerto Rico in 1950 and to the United States, where he taught literature at several universities. Having returned to live in Madrid after Franco's death, he received the Cervantes Prize in 1991 and died in Madrid in 2009, aged one hundred and three.

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• NovelDeath as a Way of LifeMuertes de perroFrancisco Ayala · 1958Literature