Azorín
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Azorín is a pseudonym of Spanish writer Jose Martin Ruiz, a member of the Spanish Generation of '98.
He was born in Monover, Alicante in 1873 and died in 1967. His father was from the town of Yecla and a soldier in the conservative party (he later became mayor, representative and follower of Romero Robledo). His mother was born in nearby Petrer. He practiced law in Monóvar and was from a middle-class traditional family. Azorín was the oldest of nine brothers. He studied internal degree for eight years in the school of the Escolapios of Yecla, a phase that is reflected in his early novels. From 1888 to 1896 he studied in Valencia, where he became interested in Krausismo and anarchism. He used the pseudonyms of Fray José, in "The Catholic Education of Petrer," and Juan of Lily in "The Defender of Yecla," etc. As a journalist, he wrote for a number of periodicals, including a newspaper edited by Valencian writer Vicente Blasco Ibáñez. He penned numerous theatrial critiques praising the works of Angel Guimerá and Benito Pérez Galdós. In 1895, Azorín published two pieces on literary anarchists and social notes, in which he presents the main anarchist theories of the time.
