Camilo José Cela dies

The writer Camilo José Cela (Iria Flavia, 1916), author of well known works such as La Colmena, has died in a hospital in Madrid, due to cardiac insufficiency caused by his respiratory illness.

He won the Nobel and Cervantes prizes, and lived for over 30 years on Mallorca. Cela and his first wife, María del Rosario Conde, moved from Madrid to Palma in 1954. In Palma, Cela met many artists and intellectuals, such as the artist Joan Miró and the writers Ernest Hemingway and Robert Graves. In 1956 he started to publish "Papeles de Son Armadans", a monthly magazine run by the writer that was published until 1979, and in May 1959, he organised from the magazine the "Poetic Conversations at Formentor". In 1964 he moved to La Bonanova, a district of Palma where Joan Miró and Robert Graves also lived. At the time of the democratic transition, in 1977, Cela was named a Senator for the Parliament by royal decree; this ended in 1979. On March 10, 1991 he married Marina Castaó and the same year King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofía opened the Camilo José Cela Foundation in his Galician town Iria Flavia.

Camilo José Cela Conde, the only son of the late writer, a professor at the Balearic University, is a writer, columnist for the Diario de Mallorca and a veteran sailor.

More information about the author:
- Página web de la Fundación Camilo José Cela

Photo © Fundación Camilo José Cela

Datum: 17/01/2002

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