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Camilo José Cela

1916 - 2002

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Camilo José Cela y Trulock, 1st Marquess of Iria Flavia (Spanish: [kamilo xoˈse ˈθela]; 11 May 1916 – 17 January 2002) was a Spanish novelist, poet, story writer and essayist associated with the Generation of '36 movement. He was awarded the 1989 Nobel Prize in Literature "for a rich and intensive prose, which with restrained compassion forms a challenging vision of man's vulnerability". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Camilo José Cela has received more than 428,514 page views. His biography is available in 78 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 76 in 2019). Camilo José Cela is the 598th most popular writer (up from 645th in 2019), the 187th most popular biography from Spain (down from 178th in 2019) and the 16th most popular Spanish Writer.

Camilo José Cela was a Spanish novelist and winner of the 1989 Nobel Prize in Literature. He is most famous for his novel, La colmena (The Hive), which was published in 1957.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Camilo José Cela ranks 598 out of 5,755Before him are Samuel Butler, Eugène Sue, Michael Crichton, Samuel Johnson, Demetrius Vikelas, and Alessandro Manzoni. After him are France Prešeren, Pierre Loti, Anton Makarenko, John Donne, Ludwig Tieck, and Anne Rice.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1916, Camilo José Cela ranks 21Before him are Herbert A. Simon, João Havelange, Ferruccio Lamborghini, Hans Eysenck, Yehudi Menuhin, and Maurice Wilkins. After him are Tsutomu Yamaguchi, Robert McNamara, Frederick Chapman Robbins, Dương Văn Minh, Natalia Ginzburg, and Marcel Cerdan. Among people deceased in 2002, Camilo José Cela ranks 21Before him are Niki de Saint Phalle, Chuck Jones, James Coburn, Ivan Illich, Rod Steiger, and Valeriy Lobanovskyi. After him are Linda Lovelace, Edsger W. Dijkstra, Robert Nozick, Nándor Hidegkuti, Fritz Walter, and James Tobin.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Camilo José Cela ranks 187 out of 2,932Before him are Joan Enric Vives Sicília (1949), Frederick III of Sicily (1272), Tirso de Molina (1579), Pedro de Alvarado (1485), Adolfo Suárez (1932), and Luis Carrero Blanco (1904). After him are Al-Hakam II (915), Cristóbal Balenciaga (1895), Andrés Segovia (1893), Buenaventura Durruti (1896), Penélope Cruz (1974), and Blanche I of Navarre (1387).

Among WRITERS In Spain

Among writers born in Spain, Camilo José Cela ranks 16Before him are Seneca the Elder (-54), Henry IV of Castile (1425), Gaius Julius Hyginus (-64), Juan Ramón Jiménez (1881), Francisco de Quevedo (1584), and Tirso de Molina (1579). After him are Leo Africanus (1494), Columella (4), Luis de Góngora (1561), Judah Halevi (1079), Jacinto Benavente (1866), and Antonio Machado (1875).