Ana maria matute biography in english
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Matute, Ana Maria (1926—)
Important Spanish novelist of the post-Civil War era . Name variations: Ana María Matute Ausejo.
Biografia de ana maria matute
Born in Barcelona, Spain, in 1926; married Ramón Eugenio de Goicoechea, in 1954 (divorced 1963); children: Juan Pablo (b. 1956).
Ana Maria Matute was born in 1926 in Barcelona, where she spent her childhood beset by poor health.
She studied first at a school run by nuns and then received an unhappy secondary education at a French-run institution. Although Matute did not attend university, she early showed literary genius.
Ana maria matute biography in english
As a teenager, in 1943 she completed Pequeño teatro, which was later revised and published in 1954. Her first novel to appear in print was Los Abel (1948), exploring the conflict between Cain and Abel to understand Spain following the Civil War.
It was a finalist for the Nadal Prize. In 1952, she married Ramón Eugenio de Goicoechea, and they had a son, Juan Pablo, two years later. Matute and Goicoechea were divorced in 1963.
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