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José Luis de Vilallonga
Biography
José Luis de Vilallonga was born in Madrid in 1920. After the Spanish Civil War, he studied journalism in Barcelona before deciding he could no longer stay in Spain. He took a doctorate in international law and then went to Argentina to breed horses. He moved to Paris in 1953 and wrote most of his books there, writing in French. He only started writing in Spanish again in the late 1990s. He died in 2007.
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Bibliography
1953 Les ramblas finissent à la mer
1955 Les gens de bien
1957 L’heure dangereuse du petit matin
1959 L’homme de sang (The Man of Blood)
1962 Homme de plaisir (The Pleasure Seeker)
1967 Allegro bárbaro
1971 Fiesta
1972 Gold Gotha
1973 A pleines dents
1974 Furia (Furia)
1975 Femmes
1975 Les Angéliques
1975 Les Gens de bien
1975 L’Heure dangereuse du petit matin
1976 L’Image de marque
1976 Solo
1976 Mujeres al descubierto
1977 Españas: la chute
1978 Gangrènes de l’honneur
1978 Allegro barbaro
1980 La nostalgia es un error
1984 Los sables, la corona y la rosa
1985 La imprudente memoria
1986 Altresse
1988 Ma vie est une fête
1992 Le gentilhomme européen [The European Gentleman]
1993 Le Roi (The King: a Life of King Juan Carlos of Spain) (first published in Spanish translation in 1991)
1994 Fellini
1995 Encuentros y encontronazos
1997 El sable del Caudillo
1998 Franco y el Rey: la espera y la esperanza
1998 Cartas desde París a mis paisanos los iberos
1999 Inolvidables mujeres
2000 Memorias no autorizadas. La cruda y tierna verdad
2001 Memorias no autorizadas. Otros mundos, otra vida
2002 Memorias no autorizadas. La flor y nata
2003 Hojas al viento: cartas a mi nieta,
2004 Memorias no autorizadas. La rosa, la corona y el marqués rojo
2006 Políticamente incorrecto