Juan Antonio Zunzunegui
Juan Antonio de Zunzunegui (21 December 1901, Portugalete — 31 May 1982, Madrid) was a 20th-century Spanish writer who mainly penned works of social criticism on the lives of contemporary people in the cities of Madrid and Bilbao. He primarily wrote novels and short stories, including the novel El premio (1961) which won Spain's National Prize for Literature. His novel El mundo sigue was adapted into the film Life Goes On (1965).
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Juan Antonio Zunzunegui
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- Born
- 1900 · Portugalete.
- Died
- 1982 · Madrid.
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- Spain
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- writer · jurist
- Honours
- Fastenrath Award · Concurso Nacional de Literatura (Spain and 1923-1973)
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- Spanish
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The 1977 film Two Men and Two Women Amongst Them was based on his 1944 novel Dos hombres y, en medio, dos mujeres.
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Juan Antonio Zunzunegui appears in the authority records of the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek as a writer (1900 – 31 May 1982). The birth of Juan Antonio Zunzunegui is recorded in 1900, and the death on 31 May 1982.
Monumento al escritor Juan Antonio de Zunzunegui y Loredo, (Portugalete, Vizcaya)
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- 1.El orgullo de haber superado en páginas a Balzac.
- 2.http://elpais.com/diario/1982/06/01/cultura/391730411_850215.html
- 3.https://dle.rae.es/portugalujo?m=form
- 4.José García López, Historia de la Literatura española, Barcelona, 1986.
- 5.De Prada, Juan Manuel. "Raros como yo" p.94
- 6."Los tesoros de la cripta", Editorial Renacimiento, 2018, p.244
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