Born in Valladolid in 1920. A student of Business and Law, he starts working with the “El Norte de Castilla” newspaper as a caricaturist and writer. Later, he would become director of the same publication. His first novel, “La sombra del ciprés es alargada”, wins the Nadal Award in 1947. In 1973 he becomes a member of the Royal Spanish Academy of Language and occupies seat E. During the speech given when he became an Academy member, titled “El sentido del progreso desde mi obra” (The Meaning of Progress through my work), he makes an allegation defending nature, one of the arguments upon which his work is based. In 1981 he publishes “Los santos inocentes”, which Mario Camus would bring to film in 1984. His last novel, “El hereje”, was published in 1998. He died in Valladolid in 2010.
Awards
Nadal Prize (1947)
National Literature Award (1955)
Príncipe de Asturias Award for Literature (1982)
National Spanish Literature Award (1991)
Cervantes Award (1993)
National Narrative Literature Award (1998)
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Five hours with Mario
The writer Miguel Delibes, in what is one of his finest novels, speaks to the reader of life in the provinces, and of death as the touchstone for revealing the ultimate meaning of life.
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The Heretic
This first venture into the field of the historical novel by Miguel Delibes constitutes a splendid historical fresco of the writer’s native Valladolid at the time of Charles I.
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The rats
En esta novela, el escritor Miguel Delibes denuncia la miseria de los pueblos sometidos al latifundismo en los duros años de la posguerra española.
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The holy innocents
One of the best-known works by the writer Miguel Delibes, it recreates the rural setting of Extremadura and was widely read in its day.
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Other highlighted works
- La sombra del ciprés es alargada
