Juan José Mira

Juan José Mira (born Juan José Moreno Sánchez; 1907–1980) was a Spanish novelist known for police fiction and novels, who won the first-ever Premio Planeta award in 1952 for his notable work En la noche no hay caminos, which reached 28 editions by 2006. He studied law in Madrid, fought on the Republican side during the Spanish Civil War, and later worked as a style corrector and film scriptwriter while producing other works like Mañana es ayer (1954) and Así es la rosa (1945). A member of the Communist Party under Franco's dictatorship, he is associated with the Generation of the 1950s Spanish writers.