FRANCISCO AYALA A FONDO - EDICIÓN COMPLETA y RESTAURADA

FRANCISCO AYALA IN DEPTH - December 11, 1977 - 54 minutes Francisco Ayala García-Duarte (Granada, 1906 - Madrid, 2009) was a Spanish writer. He excelled as a storyteller and wrote short stories and novels. At the age of sixteen, he moved to Madrid, where he soon came into contact with avant-garde literary groups. During those years, he published his first novels and two volumes of avant-garde stories, "The Boxer" and "The Hunter at Dawn." During the Civil War (1936-1939), he served as a civil servant for the Republic from the Spanish embassy in Prague. After the war, he settled with his wife and daughter in Buenos Aires, where he resumed his dedication to literature. He spent the last two decades of his exile in the United States, until his final return to Spain in 1977. Francisco Ayala is the author of an extensive essay collection that, along with his memoirs, "Memories and Forgetting" (1906-2006), earned him recognition and a full reinstatement in Spanish cultural life. In 1971, he published "The Garden of Earthly Delights." He won the National Literature Prize in 1983, and in subsequent years, his work was honored with the Cervantes Prize and the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature, among others.