Miguel Delibes
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Miguel Delibes 🇪🇸

Miguel Delibes Setién
Novelist, Journalist, Cervantes Laureate, Academician
Born Oct 17, 1920 🇪🇸 Valladolid, Spain
Passed Away Mar 12, 2010 Valladolid, Spain
Lifespan 89 years old
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Archival Overview

One of the greatest figures of post-Civil War Spanish literature, renowned for Five Hours with Mario, The Holy Innocents, and his evocative depictions of Castilian landscapes.

Biographical Record

Miguel Delibes Setién was born in Valladolid and served as an infantryman and maritime volunteer during the Spanish Civil War. He studied law and commerce before directing the regional newspaper El Norte de Castilla, where he battled Francoist censorship to report rural poverty.

Elected to the Royal Spanish Academy in 1973, Delibes produced timeless works portraying rural traditions, nature conservation, and existential dilemmas. In 1993, he received the Miguel de Cervantes Prize, Spain's most prestigious literary honor, for his mastery of the Spanish language.

Key Life Milestones

1966

Publication of Cinco horas con Mario

Published his celebrated interior monologue novel, offering a scathing critique of provincial bourgeois hypocrisy under Francoism.

1993

Miguel de Cervantes Prize

Awarded the highest literary honor in the Spanish-speaking world for his lifetime contribution to literature.

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Final Resting Place

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Pantheon of Illustrious People of Valladolid
Valladolid, Spain
GPS: 41.6523, -4.7245
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