Ramón Pérez de Ayala

Ramón Pérez de Ayala studied at University of Oviedo and Colegio de la Inmaculada. Training under Julio Cejador y Frauca is recorded. The recorded working language is Spanish and English. Places of work recorded in the authority are Madrid. Positions recorded include ambassador of Spain to the United Kingdom and Member of the Cortes republicanas. Work by Ramón Pérez de Ayala is recorded in the collections of Lluís Domènech i Montaner House-Museum. Distinctions recorded are Mariano de Cavia' Price and Concurso Nacional de Literatura (Spain, 1923-1973).

• Name — Ramón Pérez de Ayala • Office — Ambassador of Spain to the United Kingdom • Term Start — 1931 • Term End — 1936 • Office1 — Deputy of the Cortes Republicanas for Oviedo Province • Term Start1 — 1931 09 17 • Term End1 — 1933 05 05 • Born — 9 August 1880 • Birthplace — Oviedo, Spain • Died — 5 August 1962 • Place of death — Madrid, Spanish State • Alma Mater — University of Oviedo • Occupation — Writer • Illustration — Portrait by Joaquín Sorolla (1920)

Pérez de Ayala was educated at Jesuit schools, the experience of which he satirized in the novel A.M.D.G. (1910). The novelist Leopoldo Alas was among his professors, and Alas's "intellectual novel," focused on ideas and philosophy, would influence Pérez de Ayala's own fiction. There is some debate regarding to which generation of Spanish writers Pérez de Ayala belongs. His early realistic novels reveal ties with the Generation of 98. However, some argue that Ramon Pérez de Ayala was a member of the Generation of 1914, a group which did not entirely fit with either the Generation of 98 or the Generation of 27. Like his political ally José Ortega y Gasset, he was a liberal republican and opposed to the Spanish monarchy, as well as a professed Anglophile who sought to import the English parliamentary system to Spain. He was elected to the Royal Spanish Academy in 1928, and received nominations for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1931, 1934 and 1947. He was appointed director of the Prado Museum in 1931 a position that he left temporarily in 1932 to become the Spanish ambassador to Britain. Perez de Ayala received an honorary doctorate from the University of Oxford in 1936. He was succeeded as director of the Prado Museum by Pablo Picasso in 1936. After 1916, his novels became increasingly mature and lyrical, his characters becoming symbolic representatives of general human problems. To this period belongs his masterpieces, Belarmino y Apolonio (1921) (translated as "Belarmino and Apolonio"), Tiger Juan (1926) and El curandero de su honra (The Healer of his Honour) (1927). La paz del sendero (The Peace of the Path) (1903), El sendero innumerable (1916), and El sendero andante (1921), his major poetic works, show the influence of French symbolism. He also wrote satiric essays and dramatic criticism.

• Belarmino and Apolonio (1990) Quartet Books. • Honeymoon, Bittermoon (1974) University of California Press. • Sunday Light. In: • Tiger Juan translator Walter Starkie, J. Cape, 1933,

His work is associated with Generation of 1914. Recorded positions include ambassador of Spain to the United Kingdom, Member of the Cortes republicanas, director of Museo del Prado and Member of the Royal Spanish Academy. He belonged to Royal Spanish Academy. He worked at Madrid.