Camilo Cela
Camilo Cela
A Spanish novelist and short story writer and a 1989 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, he is best known for his 1951 novel La Colmena (The Hive). His other notable works include Cristo versus Arizona (Christ versus Arizona) and La Familia de Pascual Duarte (The Family of Pascual Duarte).
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth11 May 1916
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The greatest reward is to know that one can speak and emit articulate sounds and utter words that describe things, events and emotions.
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It is not difficult to write in Spanish; the Spanish language is a gift from the gods which we Spaniards take for granted. I take comfort therefore in the belief that you wished to pay tribute to a glorious language and not to the humble writer who uses it for everything it can express: the joy and the wisdom of Mankind, since literature is an art form of all and for all, although written without deference, heeding only the voiceless, anonymous murmur of a given place and time.
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For a rich and intensive prose, which with restrained compassion forms a challenging vision of man's vulnerability.