Nobel-Winning Writer Camilo Jose Cela Dies; Known for His Crude, Flamboyant Style

The Washington Post | January 19, 2002 | Copyright

Camilo Jose Cela, 85, a flamboyant novelist from Spain who won the 1989 Nobel Prize in literature with his crude, straightforward writing style, died of a heart ailment Jan. 17 at a hospital here.

"We have lost probably the most universal writer Spain had in the second half of the 20th century," Spanish Culture Minister Pilar del Castillo told national radio.

With his first novel, "The Family of Pascual Duarte," Mr. Cela became the leader of an uncommonly straightforward style of writing called "tremendismo" that clashed with the lyricism of previous Spanish writers.

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