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Camilo Jose Cela

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    (May 11, 1916-January 17, 2002)
    Born in Padron, Spain
    Novelist and short story writer
    Works include 'The Family of Pascual Duarte' (1942), 'The Hive' (1951), 'San Camilo, 1936' (1969), 'Mazurka for Two Dead People' (1983), 'St. Andrew's Cross' (1994) and 'Boxwood' (1999)
    Won the Nobel Prize in Literature (1989)
    Given the hereditary title Marquis of Iria Flavia by King Juan Carlos (1996)

Why he might be annoying:

    He was expelled from several schools, once for biting his teacher on the ankle in a brawl.
    He fought in the Spanish Civil War on the fascist side.
    After being wounded by a grenade, he worked as a censor. (Ironic, given his later battles with the censors of the Franco regime.)
    He spied for the Spanish secret police, reporting on the activities of dissidents.
    His novel 'Christ versus Arizona' tells the story of the gunfight at the OK Corral in a single sentence that runs for more than 100 pages.
    He left his wife of 46 years for a woman four decades his junior.
    He was estranged from his only son and never saw his granddaughter.
    He was accused of plagiarizing part of 'St. Andrew's Cross' from a work by a lesser-known author, Carmen Formoso.

Why he might not be annoying:

    He spent a year in a tuberculosis sanitarium as a teen.
    Several of his works had to be published in Latin America because the Spanish censors considered them immoral.
    Censors expelled him from Spain's Press Association, so his name could no longer appear in print.
    He and Ernest Hemingway were good friends, often attending bullfights together.
    His once-censored 'Family of Pascual Duarte' became the second most-translated work of Spanish literature, behind only Cervantes' 'Don Quixote.'

Credit: C. Fishel


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    In 2023, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 1 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 11 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 9 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 6 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 3 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 6 Votes: 16.67% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 6 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 4 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 333 Votes: 58.56% Annoying