name: Camilo José Cela
birth_date: 1916-05-11 00:00:00
death_date: 2002-01-17 00:00:00
genres: Travel, Literature & Fiction
influences: Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Francisco de Quevedo, Benito Pérez Galdós, Pío Baroja, Jean-Paul Sartre, Fyodor, John Dos Passos, Miguel de Cervantes, Valle-Inclán, James Joyce
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about: Camilo José Cela Trulock was a Spaniard writer from Galicia. Prolific author (as a novelist, journalist, essayist, literary magazine editor, lecturer ...), he was a member of the Royal Spanish Academy for 45 years and won, among others, the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature in 1987, the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1989 ("for a rich and intensive prose, which with restrained compassion forms a challenging vision of man's vulnerability.") and the Cervantes Prize in 1995.In 1996 King Juan Carlos I granted him, for his literary merits, the title Marquis of Iria Flavia.His son, Camilo José Cela Conde is also a writer.See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camilo_J... Camilo José Cela Trulock was a Spaniard writer from Galicia. Prolific author (as a novelist, journalist, essayist, literary magazine editor, lecturer ...), he was a member of the Royal Spanish Academy for 45 years and won, among others, the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature in 1987, the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1989 ("for a rich and intensive prose, which with restrained compassion forms a challenging vision of man's vulnerability.") and the Cervantes Prize in 1995.In 1996 King Juan Carlos I granted him, for his literary merits, the title Marquis of Iria Flavia.His son, Camilo José Cela Conde is also a writer.See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camilo_J... ...more