Ramón José Sender Garcés

Ramón José Sender Garcés ( February 3 1901 ndash January 15 1982) was an Aragonese Spanish novelist, essayist and journalist.

Life

He was born in Chalamera, Huesca in the autonomous region of Aragon in Spain. After participating in the Spanish-Morocco War in the 1910s and 1920s he relocated to Madrid and worked for the newspaper "El Sol". In 1923 he was obliged to serve in the Spanish military and take part in the Spain Morocco Rif War (which lasted from 1919 to 1926). Later that year he returned to Madrid, where he worked as a journalist for a paper critical of the current government. In 1926 he was imprisoned for writing for the organization, the Old Houses. When the Spanish Civil War began in 1936, Sender immediately enlisted to help resist Franco. While he was at the front, the enemies of Sender went to his house and shot his wife and his brother. He had been an anarchist and then a communist but after the Spanish Civil War he reneged of this ideology and sought asylum in France in 1938. He left Spain for New York after the Spanish Civil War in 1939, and then relocated to Mexico like many scientists, artists and intellectuals during the government of Lázaro Cárdenas. He became an American citizen in 1948, and he lived in the United States until 1972, when he returned to live in Spain for several years before dying in San Diego, California in 1982.

Work

His works include "La tesis de Nancy", about the experiences of a young American student in Spain and Nancy, and the "Réquiem por un campesino español". "La tesis de Nancy" is widely read by Spanish students. The book is a true account based upon a series of letters written by Nancy (originally in English) from Nancy to her aunt. At the time Nancy was studying and living in Spain. She shared with her aunt her love for learning and exploring the Spanish language.

Publications

* "Imán" (1930)
* "Mr. Witt en el cantón" (1935)
* "Mexicayotl" (1940)
* "Crónica del alba" (1942)
* "La esfera" (1947)
* "El rey y la reina" (1949)
* "Requiem por un campesino español" (1960)
* "El bandido adolescente" (1965)
* "La aventura equinocial de Lope de Aguirre" (1968)

External links

* [http://www.epdlp.com/escritor.php?id=2299 Profile]
* [http://centros4.pntic.mec.es/ies.ramon.j.sender/sender.htm Biography]
* [http://aula.el-mundo.es/aula/noticia.php/2000/01/17/aula947885320.html Ramón J. Sender: One of the most important Spanish expatriate writers]
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