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Camilo José Cela

Born

in Iria Flavia, Padrón, A Coruña, Galiza, Spain

May 11, 1916

Died

January 17, 2002

Genre

Literature & Fiction, Travel

Influences

Francisco de Quevedo, Miguel de Cervantes, Benito Pérez Galdós, Fyodor ...more

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Camilo José Cela Trulock was a Spaniard writer from Galicia. Prolific author (as a novelist, journalist, essayist, literary magazine editor, lecturer ...), he was a member of the Royal Spanish Academy for 45 years and won, among others, the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature in 1987, the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1989 ("for a rich and intensive prose, which with restrained compassion forms a challenging vision of man's vulnerability.") and the Cervantes Prize in 1995.

In 1996 King Juan Carlos I granted him, for his literary merits, the title Marquis of Iria Flavia.

His son, Camilo José Cela Conde is also a writer.

See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camilo_J... ...more

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Camilo José Cela’s books

Average rating: 3.71 · 36,212 ratings · 3,262 reviews · 353 distinct works • Similar authors

	La familia de Pascual Duarte by Camilo José Cela, Alan Hoyle (Editor) 3.78 avg rating — 19,229 ratings — published 1942 — 95 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	La colmena 3.74 avg rating — 11,651 ratings — published 1951 — 216 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Journey to the Alcarria: Travels through the Spanish Countryside 3.60 avg rating — 1,276 ratings — published 1948 — 72 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mazurka for Two Dead Men 3.63 avg rating — 673 ratings — published 1983 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pabellón de reposo 3.61 avg rating — 419 ratings — published 1943 — 32 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Café de artistas y otros cuentos 3.01 avg rating — 432 ratings — published 1953 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Christ Versus Arizona by Camilo José Cela, Martin Sokolinsky (Translator) 3.61 avg rating — 242 ratings — published 1988 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bayan Caldwell Oğluyla Konuşuyor by Camilo José Cela, Gökhan Aksay (Translator) 3.40 avg rating — 247 ratings — published 1953 — 42 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	San Camilo 1936 by Camilo José Cela, Claude Bourguignon (Translator), Claude Couffon (Translator) 3.82 avg rating — 192 ratings — published 1969 — 40 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Cruz de Santo André by Camilo José Cela, José Carlos González (Translator) 2.52 avg rating — 227 ratings — published 1994 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Camilo José Cela

Caminos inciertos (1 book)
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3.74 avg rating — 11,651 ratings

Viaje a la Alcarria (2 books)
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3.58 avg rating — 1,378 ratings

Obra Completa de Camilo José Cela (8 books)
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3.94 avg rating — 54 ratings

Diccionario secreto (2 books)
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3.65 avg rating — 34 ratings

Nuevas Escenas Matritenses (7 books)
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 7 ratings

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Quotes by Camilo José Cela (?)

“Yo, señor, no soy malo, aunque no me faltarían motivos para serlo.”
― Camilo José Cela, Familia de Pascual Duarte

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“I'm not made to philosophize, I don't have the heart for it. My heart is more like a machine for making blood to be spilled in a knife fight...”
― Camilo José Cela, La familia de Pascual Duarte

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“El que resiste, gana”
― Camilo José Cela

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Polls

September 2020 New School Classic Poll

A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O'Connor, 1968, 252 pages

72 votes, 24.0%

Spring Snow by Yukio Mishima, 1968, 389 pages

69 votes, 23.0%

Maurice by E.M. Forster, 1971, 256 pages

41 votes, 13.7%

The Price of Salt by Claire Morgan (Pseudonym), Patricia Highsmith, 1952, 292 pages

41 votes, 13.7%

The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford, 1915, 368 pages

33 votes, 11.0%

The Family of Pascual Duarte by Camilo José Cela, 1942, 166 pages

24 votes, 8.0%

The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, 1938, 513 pages

20 votes, 6.7%

300 total votes

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