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Article: Francisco Ayala; Spanish novelist, sociologist, scholar spent years in exile
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- November 5, 2009
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MADRID - Francisco Ayala - a novelist, sociologist, and one of
Spain's leading scholars, who went into exile during the country's
decades of dictatorship - died Tuesday. He was 103.
Mr. Ayala's foundation said he died of natural causes at his home
in Madrid.
Mr. Ayala won many prestigious prizes in Spain, from the
Cervantes award, considered the Spanish-language equivalent of the
Nobel for literature, in 1991 to the Prince of Asturias in 1998.
His life as a young man turned into a flight from the horrors of
the Spanish Civil War and the ensuing dictatorship of General
Francisco Franco.
At the outbreak of the conflict in 1936, Mr. Ayala, a law
professor and a regular contributor to ...