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Premio Cervantes · 2014 · Winner

Joaquín MortizJanuary 1, 1966Literary Fiction

Award History

Award	Year	Status	Citation
Premio Cervantes	2014	Winner

About This Book

The first volume of the Mendiola Trilogy, a formally radical novel following a Spaniard who returns from exile to examine his identity against the myths of Spanish culture and the reality of Francoism.

About the Author

Juan GoytisoloES

Juan Goytisolo was a Spanish novelist, essayist, and intellectual born in 1931 in Barcelona. He is widely considered the greatest Spanish novelist of the postwar generation and one of the most important European writers of the twentieth century. His early rejection of Francoist Spain led him to exile in Paris and Marrakesh, where he spent most of his adult life. Read more →