Miguel Delibes - 1993 - Spain

Miguel Delibes Setién (born 1920) is a Spanish novelist and member of the Real Academia Española. Born in Valladolid, Spain, Delibes studied law and economics and from 1945 was a professor of commercial law at the University of Valladolid, also working as a journalist.

His first novel was La sombra del ciprés es alargada in 1947. It won the Premio Nadal. In 1950 El camino told of the process undergone by a boy in the discovery of life and experience. En 1953 Delibes published Mi idolatrado hijo Sisí, an opinion novel in which he tackles the life of the provincial bourgeoisie in Valladolid.

Other novels are La hoja roja (1959); Las ratas (1962), built from the starting point of a succession of anecdotes in which he recalls a disappeared village in Castile; and, above all, Cinco horas con Mario (1966), considered his masterpiece.