Francisco Ayala (novelist)

Francisco Ayala García-Duarte
Francisco Ayala in 1967
Born	(1906-03-16) March 16, 1906 Granada, Andalusia, Spain
Pen name	Francisco Ayala
Occupation	Novelist
Nationality	Spanish
Period	1925 - present
Website
Fundación Francisco Ayala (Spanish)

Francisco Ayala (born March 16, 1906 in Granada) 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, literary criticism 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)

External links

• Francisco AYALA Foundation, Granada, Spain
• http://www.us.es/ayala/premcandidatnobeling.htm
• http://www.webster.edu/~corbetre/personal/reading/ayala-usurpers.html
• Ayala is Patron Honoris Causa of The Friends of Jorge Luis Borges Worldwide Society; both writers became friends when Ayala was exiled in Buenos Aires during Franco's Dictatorship.