Ramón José Sender Garcés
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Ramón José Sender Garcés (February 3, 1901 – January 16, 1982) was a writer born in Chalamera, Huesca in the autonomous region of Aragon in Spain.
After participating in the Spanish-Morocco War in the 1910s and 1920s he relocated to Madrid and worked for the newspaper El Sol. He became an anarchist and then a communist but after the Spanish Civil War he renegued of this ideology and sought asylum in France in 1938. He then relocated to Mexico like many scientists, artists and intellectuals during the government of Lázaro Cárdenas.
From 1948 to 1972 he lived in the United States. After spening several years back in Spain he died in San Diego, California in 1982.
[edit] Publications
- Imán (1930)
- Mr. Witt en el cantón (1935)
- Mexicayotl (1940)
- Crónica del alba (1942)
- Requiem por un campesino español (1960)
- El bandido adolescente (1965)
- La aventura equinocial de Lope de Aguirre (1968)
[edit] External links
- (Spanish) Profile
- (Spanish) Biography
- (Spanish) Ramón J. Sender: One of the most important Spanish expatriate writers
