The Modern Novel

Biography

Carmen Laforet was born in Barcelona in 1921 but grew up in the Canary Islands. Her father was an architect. Her mother died and her father remarried but neither Laforet nor her siblings got on with their new stepmother. She went to university in Barcelona to study philosophy though she never completed her degree, spending much of 1944 writing her first novel, Nada (Nada). This novel has become a classic of Spanish literature and is the only of her novels to be translated into English. Though she published several more novels/novellas, she never matched the success of her first one. It is this novel that linked her to tremendismo. She died in 2004.

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Carmen Laforet
Obituary
Official site (in Spanish)
Carmen Laforet (in Spanish)
Carmen Laforet (in Spanish)