Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Carmen
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Spain
- Place of death
- Majadahonda
- Occupation
- novelist
- Educated at
- Complutense University of Madrid
- Languages spoken
- German
- Native language
- Spanish
- Religion
- Catholicism
- Award
- Premio Nadal
- Image
- Portrait Carmen Laforet.jpg
- Number of children
- 5
- Residence
- Barcelona
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- date of birth
- 1921-09-06
- date of death
- 2004-02-28
- Commons category
- Carmen Laforet
- birth name
- Carmen Laforet Díaz
- medical condition
- Alzheimer's disease
- name in native language
- Carmen Laforet Díaz
- second family name in Spanish name
- Díaz
- pseudonym
- Carmen Laforet
- writing language
- Spanish
- place of burial
- La Almudena Cemetery
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Encyclopedic overview
Portrait of Carmen Laforet Carmen Laforet (Barcelona 6 September 1921 – Madrid, 28 February 2004) was a Spanish author who wrote in the period after the Spanish Civil War. An important European writer, her works contributed to the school of Existentialist Literature and her first novel Nada continued the Spanish tremendismo literary style begun by Camilo José Cela with his novel, La familia de Pascual Duarte. She received the Premio Nadal in 1944.
Biography
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Carmen Laforet” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.