Miguel Delibes

Miguel Delibes (Valladolid, 1920–2010) made his name as a novelist with La sombra del ciprés es alargada (The Cypress Has a Long Shadow), which won the Nadal Prize in 1947. His extensive body of fiction includes Mi idolatrado hijo Sisí, El camino (The Way), Las ratas, Cinco horas con Mario, Las guerras de nuestros antepasados, El disputado voto del señor Cayo, Los santos inocentes, Señora de rojo sobre fondo gris, and El hereje.

He received the National Literature Prize (1955), the Critics’ Prize (1962), the National Prize for Letters (1991), and the Cervantes Prize for Literature (1993). He became a member of the Royal Spanish Academy in 1973. Ediciones Destino has published his Complete Works.