Key Points

• Novelist, journalist and newspaper editor

• Leading figure of post-Civil War Spanish literature

• Member of the Royal Spanish Academy

• Began his career as a cartoonist and columnist

• His works are often related to hunting and the countryside

• Several of his works have been adapted into plays or films

Relevant Works

• La sombra del ciprés es alargada

• Diario de un cazador

• Las ratas

• Los santos inocentes

• Cinco horas con mario

• El hereje