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''' Gonzalo Torrente Ballester''' ([[June 13]], [[1910]] - [[January 27]], [[1999]]) was a [[Galicia (Spain)|SpanishGalicia]] writer. He was born in [[Ferrol]] and received his first education there, subsequently attending the universities of [[University of Santiago de Compostela|Santiago de Compostela]] and [[Oviedo]]. Although primarily a [[novel]]ist, he also published journalism, essays, and plays. His career as a writer began in [[Oviedo]], but developed largely in [[Madrid]]. After moving around frequently in the later [[1920s]] and early [[1930s]], including a period in [[Paris]], he returned to [[Spain]] and linked himself to [[Francisco Franco|Franco]]'s [[Falange]] party in order to save his own life and that of his family. His first novel, ''Javier Mariño'', appeared in [[1943]], and he continued to publish novels almost until his death, receiving major prizes for some of them.

Despite his affiliation to the Falangists, Torrente Ballester always promoted relatively leftist ideas, and from [[1939]], when he returned to Santiago to take up a university post, he increasingly distanced himself from the party. He joined in protests in favour of striking [[Asturia]]n miners in [[1962]], and was expelled from his teaching post at the university as a result. In the mid-[[1960s]] he had a number of problems with government censors. He left Spain for a post at the [[State University of New York at Albany]] in [[1966]], and remained there until [[1970]]. After his return to [[Spain]], he was increasingly celebrated, and was awarded the premier Spanish literary prize, the '''Cervantes prize''', in [[1985]].

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