

ĭespite 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. From right to left, the director of The Royal Spanish Academy, Víctor García de la Concha,Torrente's widow, Fernanda, the author Carlos Casares and the sculptor Fernando Mayoral. The Presentation of a sculpture in honour of Torrente, at the Café Novelty, in Salamanca in 2000. 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. He followed the recommendation of a priest he trusted and joined the Falange. His father exclaimed by way of greeting: "Don't you know that many of your friends have been shot?". From the bus that was taking him home, he saw the bodies of victims of the repression in the ditches. After hesitating, he returned to Spain in October to be with his family. His career as a writer began in Oviedo, but developed largely in Madrid.īefore 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. He was born in Serantes, Ferrol, Galicia, and received his first education there, subsequently attending the universities of Santiago de Compostela and Oviedo.Īlthough primarily a novelist, he also published journalism, essays, and plays. Gonzalo Torrente Ballester (13 June 1910 – 27 January 1999) was a Spanish writer associated with the Generation of '36 movement. For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.You should also add the template to the talk page.A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing Spanish Wikipedia article at ] see its history for attribution. You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation.If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article. Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality.Consider adding a topic to this template: there are already 5,182 articles in the main category, and specifying |topic= will aid in categorization.Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia.
