The Family of Pascual Duarte
1942
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Cela was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in October 1989, and this novel is considered by many to be his masterpiece. It is the story of an ignorant Castillian peasant and multiple murderer, and it tells of the savage impulses behind his crimes and his redeeming characteristics.
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Author
Camilo Jose Cela
Author · 21 books
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...
