Francisco Ayala (born March 16, 1906 in Grenada) is a Spanish writer and professor . At the age of nineteen he published his first novel, Tragicomedia de un hombre sin espiritu. At the start of the Civil War in Spain, Ayala was out of the country. He returned for a brief time and later served as the Secretary of the Republican Delegation in Praga. After the war he moved to Argentina where he lived between 1939 and 1950. There he taught sociology while continuing to publish works of fiction, critics of literature and works of sociology. He also lived in Brazil and Puerto Rico and later moved to the United States where he taught in various universities. In 1960 he returned to Spain for the first time. Since then he has continued to write essays and fiction about various themes. Many of his writings deal with the topics of power and abuse. In general he has not directly written about the war in Spain, but instead, examines it through other periods of history to indirectly show the injustices. Some of his works are: La cabeza de cordero (1949) Muertes de perros (1958) El fondo del vaso (1962) El regreso (1992) y El escritor en su siglo (1990) March 16 is the 75th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (76th in Leap years). ... 1906 (MCMVI) was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ...
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Ayala finally returned to live in his homeland in 1976 (the year of Francos death), and was elected to the Spanish Royal Academy and awarded Spains National Prize for Literature in 1984.
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