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José María Gironella
Biography
José María Gironella was born in Darnius, Gerona in 1917. He was educated in a seminary and held various jobs, including working in chemist’s and in a bank. He fought in the Civil War on the nationalist (Franco) side, after escaping from Republican-held territory by fleeing to France and then going to San Sebastian. He has written memoirs, essays, short stories and travel literature but is best known for his Spanish Civil War tetralogy, generally known by the first book in the series – Los cipreses creen en Dios (The Cypresses Believe in God). He died in 2003.
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1947 Un hombre (Where the Soil Was Shallow)
1949 La marea
1953 Los cipreses creen en Dios (The Cypresses Believe in God)
1954 El novelista ante el mundo
1958 Los fantasmas de mi cerebro (Phantoms and Fugitives)
1961 Todos somos fugitivos (Phantoms and Fugitives)
1961 Un millón de muertos (One Million Dead)
1962 Mujer, levántate y anda
1963 Personas, ideas, mares
1964 El Japón y su duende
1965 China, lágrima innumberable
1965 Personas, ideas, mares
1966 Ha estallado la paz (Peace after War)
1967 Gritos del mar
1968 Conversaciones con don Juan de Borbón
1968 En Asia se muere bajo las estrellas
1969 100 españoles y Dios
1970 Gritos de la tierra
1971 Condenados a vivir
1973 Gritos del mar
1974 El Mediterráneo es un hombre disfrazado de mar
1977 El escándalo de Tierra Santa
1978 Carta a mi madre muerta
1978 Carta a mi padre muerto
1979 100 españoles y Franco
1981 Mundo tierno, mundo cruel
1982 El escándalo del Islam
1983 Cita en el cementerio
1986 Los hombres lloran solos
1988 La duda inquietante
1989 Yo, Mahoma
1990 A la sombra de Chopin
1994 Nuevos 100 españoles y Dios
1995 El corazón alberga muchas sombras
1998 Se hace camino al andar
1999 Las pequeñas cosas de Dios
2001 El apocalipsis
2003 Por amor a la verdad