Wenceslao Fernández Flórez

Wenceslao Fernández Flórez ( born February 11, 1885 in La Coruna, † April 29, 1964 in Madrid) was a Spanish journalist and novelist.

Fernández Flórez worked early on as a journalist for various newspapers of his native province, after his father died when he was 15 years old. Among other things, he worked as a political correspondent for El Imparcial and ABC. Many of his articles were published as Crónicas parliament arias (1914-1936) in book form.

In 1917 he was awarded for his debut novel Volvoreta the Círculo de Bellas Artes; 1926 National Prize for Literature. His novels were regarded as exemplary satirical drawings of Spanish relations, politics and society under King Alfonso XIII .. At the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, he was his assassination (because of " inadequate support of the Frente Popular) only by fleeing to the embassies of Argentina, and later the Netherlands escape, and finally he can leave the country - events that he later in the novels Un isla en el mar rojo and La novela número 13 processed and described Fernández Flórez 1945 is added to the Real Academia Española, 1959, he received the Orden de Alfonso. X el Sabio.

Many of his works have been made ​​into a film; total counts to 27 arrangements of his materials, often treat the beauty and pride of Galicia.

Works (selection)

  • La tristeza de la paz (1910 )
  • La procesión de los días (1915 )
  • Luz de luna (1915 )
  • Acotaciones de un oyente ( Crónicas parliament arias, 1916)
  • Las gafas del diablo (1918 )
  • Volvoreta (1917 )
  • Ha entrado un ladrón (1922 )
  • El secreto de Barba Azul (1923 )
  • Visiones de neurastenia (1924 )
  • Las siete columnas (1926 )
  • Relato inmoral (1927 )
  • Fantasmas (1930 )
  • Los que no a la guerra fuimos (1930 )
  • El malvado Carabel (1931 )
  • Aventuras del caballero de Rogelio Amaral (1933 )
  • Una isla en el Mar Rojo (1938 )
  • La novela número 13 (1941 )
  • El bosque animado (1943 )
  • El toro, el torero y el gato (1946 )
  • Fuegos artificiales (1954 )

External links and sources

  • Biography ( eng )
  • Wenceslao Fernández Flórez Foundation
  • List of films in imdb
  • Journalist (Spain )
  • Literature ( 20th century)
  • Literature ( Spanish)
  • Member of the Real Academia Española
  • Spaniard
  • Born 1885
  • Died in 1964
  • Man
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