by Ian Gibson · Aguilar · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788403093560
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«Cela, el hombre que quiso ganar» is the biography of Camilo José Cela written by Ian Gibson, published by Aguilar in paperback (384 pages, in Spanish).
Hispanist Ian Gibson goes beyond the public image of Camilo José Cela, Nobel Prize in Literature and author of La colmena, to discover the man who devoted his life to literary glory. The biography traces Cela's career and reveals little-known facets of a writer who left no one indifferent.
First edition published in Madrid in 2003; includes bibliographic references (pages 365-368) and index.
For readers of literary biographies and for those who want to know the less public side of Camilo José Cela, Nobel Prize in Literature.
Ian Gibson is an Irish author and Hispanist known for his biographies of the poet Antonio Machado, the artist Salvador Dalí, the bibliographer Henry Spencer Ashbee, the filmmaker Luis Buñuel, and particularly his work on the poet and playwright Federico García Lorca, for which he won several awards, including the 1989 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography. His work, La represión nacionalista de Granada en 1936 y la muerte de Federico García Lorca was banned in Spain under Franco.
