Michel del Castillo
Michel del Castillo ( born August 3, 1933, Madrid) is a French writer of Spanish origin.
Biography
In conjunction with the turmoil of the Spanish Civil War Castillo fell after being denounced by his mother as a child in the Mauthausen concentration camp. The there, as well as the experienced in a totalitarian -run children's home after his return to Spain physical and psychological tortures form the autobiographical background of his first widely successful novel Tanguy (1957, German in 1958 as elegy night).
Awards (selection)
Works ( German -language selection)
- Elegy of the night. Documentary novel. (also mdUT: A youth in prison camps ), Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1958 NA u.d.T.: Tanguy, Elegy night. Novel, Ark, Zurich and Hamburg in 1996