has died Miguel Delibes, master teacher, soul Castilian,
irreplaceable library ( Miguel Ortiz March 12, 2010)
irreplaceable library ( Miguel Ortiz March 12, 2010)
After a few days that his health had deteriorated substantially, Miguel Delibes's family announced his death at age 89. With it we'll be the last of the great figures of the twentieth century, an author who, while dodging the censor, enriched the English language combining as one standard English and Castilian provinces.
Miguel Delibes (who was born in Valladolid in 1920) is, without doubt, one of the great novelists of our history. With only 27 received the Premio Nadal, by the shadow of the cypress is long (1947), its first novel. Three years later he wrote the book that every teen is forced to read (and every adult to read again) the wonderful and peerless El Camino (1950). In 55 is worthy of the National Fiction Award for Diary of a hunter, an award that he won again in 1999 by The Hereje.En 1982 he received the Prince of Asturias Award for Letters and in 1984 the Award for Letters of Castile and Leon, is Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Republic (1985). In 1991 he was awarded the National Prize for English Literature and two years later finally received the Cervantes Prize. Just missed the Nobel prize but certainly deserved eluded him. Miguel Delibes's contribution goes beyond the literary. He was to become the English literary renaissance after a bleak period after the Civil War, his work has improved and dignified the English language, respecting both the urban and rural speech, letting his characters speak as they would if there really, not as a subject of fiction.
Loved by many, respected by all. Little Don Miguel I can say without being topicazos not deserve. So I give way to you, readers, that completéis this farewell ...
Miguel Delibes, NOVELIST OF CASTILLA
-SEMBLAZA-
In Miguel Delibes, Castilian novelist, literary
which encompasses the entire second half of the twentieth century
life and work are developed in complete consistency. Miguel Delibes
writes as he is, his literature is a true reflection of his person.
has always given an ethical dimension to his narrative, brilliantly combining it with
literary aesthetics.
"My life as a writer, has confessed he" would not be as
if not based on unchanging moral background. Ethics and aesthetics
have shaken hands in all aspects of my life. "
His novels, his journalistic writings, their stories of hunting trips or
His novels, his journalistic writings, their stories of hunting trips or
books are an accurate portrayal, and often critical of the land and the people of his native Castile,
and a plea for nature and
perfect harmony between man and his environment.
Miguel Delibes is therefore Castilla novelist and nature writer.
Miguel Delibes is therefore Castilla novelist and nature writer.
But since the landscape and from his native Castile, transcends a universal dimension
and its characters are vivid portraits of the man in the second half of the twentieth century. Delibes
is also a personality and a freelance writer.
is also a personality and a freelance writer.
He has demonstrated in his long career
journalistic -developed mostly during the Franco dictatorship, "
in his novels and essays
and also in their attitude and biographical trajectory.
If you have sided with someone has always been, so in reality than in fiction-
the losing side, which is like saying the side of right
(Norte de Castilla ")
(Norte de Castilla ")
