Don Camilo José Cela Trulock, Marquis of Iria Flavia (Spanish: Don Camilo José Cela Trulock, marqués de Iria Flavia) (May 11, 1916—January 17, 2002) was an influential Spanish writer and member of the Generation of 1950.
Camilo José Cela was born in Iria Flavia, Padrón, Galicia, Spain of Galician and English parents. Before he became a professional writer, Cela attended the University of Madrid, where he briefly pursued a law degree. He also foug...
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Don Camilo José Cela Trulock, Marquis of Iria Flavia (Spanish: Don Camilo José Cela Trulock, marqués de Iria Flavia) (May 11, 1916—January 17, 2002) was an influential Spanish writer and member of the Generation of 1950.
Camilo José Cela was born in Iria Flavia, Padrón, Galicia, Spain of Galician and English parents. Before he became a professional writer, Cela attended the University of Madrid, where he briefly pursued a law degree. He also fought in the Spanish Civil War on the side of Franco, until he was wounded by an errant grenade and discharged. After the war, Cela dedicated himself to newspaper work and took several jobs of an essentially bureaucratic nature, including a position of censor that would later bring him criticism. In 1944 he married María del Rosario Conde Picavea with whom he had a son, Camilo José Cela Conde, 2nd Marquess of Iria Flavia, in 1946.
Cela published his first novel, La Familia de Pascual Duarte (The Family of Pascual Duarte), when he was 26, in 1942....
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