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  GONZALO TORRENTE BALLESTER
Gonzalo Torrente Ballester was born on June 13, 1910, in Ferroll, Spain.
Torrente Ballester left Spain for a post at the State University of New York at Albany in 1966, and remained there until 1970.
After his return to Spain, he was increasingly celebrated, and was awarded the premier Spanish literary prize, the Cervantes prize, in 1985.[1] Torrente Ballester was a Distinguished Professor of Spanish Literature at the University at Albany from 1966 to 1970.
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  Gonzalo Torrente Ballester - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Gonzalo Torrente Ballester (June 13, 1910 - January 27, 1999) was a Spanish writer.
Despite his affiliation to the Falangists, Torrente Ballester always promoted relatively leftist ideas, and from 1939, when he returned to Santiago to take up a university post, he increasingly distanced himself from the party.
The name of this foundation is Fundación Gonzalo Torrente Ballester and counts among its supporters the Royal House of Spain.
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 Consejería de Educación en Reino Unido e Irlanda   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Gonzalo Torrente Ballester, uno de los novelistas españoles más importantes de este siglo, ya descansa en el cementerio de Serantes, aldea que le vio nacer, junto a los restos de su madre y de su abuelo.
A pesar de sus fracasos, Torrente escribió, contra viento y marea, una obra que se aproxima al medio centenar de libros que constituyen un impresionante legado para las siglos venideros.
Gonzalo Torrente Ballester nació en Serantes (Ferrol) en junio de 1910.
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Gonzalo Torrente Ballester was born on the 13 of June in 1910 at Os Currás in Serantes, at his maternal grandparents' house on the day of the Saint Patron of San Antón da Cabana.
This village environment will apperar all along his works as here, near his grandparents who represented the dicotomy between rationalism and superstition, he would live for a long time when his father, who was a navy officer, was not at home.
There is a commemorative plaque in his native house of Torrentes, at Os Currás (Serantes).
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 Digital Guide of Salamanca - Entertainment and Culture   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Son of a sailor who brought him books from the trips, Torrente Ballester grew up between the atmosphere of rural legends and a harbor city which gathered experiences and histories from sailors of all around the world.
Graduate in Philosophy by the University of Santiago de Compostela, had anarchist tendencies as a youngster, and during Franco´s dictatorship lost his position in the press and in the radio due to having signed a manifesto in support to Asturias´; miners.
Torrente Ballester passed away with the age of 88, in Salamanca, the city he had elected to live in and is nominated "favorite son" in recognition to his work and intellectual importance.
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 Casa de Su Majestad el Rey de España
Gonzalo Torrente Ballester se ha dedicado a la enseñanza, ha descubierto y ha compartido, como nos decía hace un momento, el arte de la lengua y el secreto de la literatura.
Partiendo muchas veces de los clásicos, Gonzalo Torrente Ballester -que por algo se considera un novelista intelectual- ha recuperado nuestros viejos mitos, ha recreado la realidad española de unos años difíciles o ha fabulado dejando siempre a su aire a la imaginación.
Por todas estas cosas reconocemos la obra de Gonzalo Torrente Ballester como la de uno de esos maestros que toda cultura necesita para continuar ese camino que debe desembocar siempre en la libertad y en la dignidad del hombre.
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 "-XORNADAS-TRADUCCION-LITERARIA"-ORGANIZADAS-POLA-UNIVERSIDADE-VIGO   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Alfredo Conde destaca a interpretación da estructura literaria das obras de Gonzalo Torrente Ballester na súa traducción.
A sé da Fundación Torrente Ballester, en Santiago de Compostela, acolleu as primeiras actividades das "Xornadas de Traducción Literaria" que, organizadas pola Universidade de Vigo, tratan de abarcar todos os aspectos derivados da traducción das obras do autor ferrolán coa presenza de expertos de diferentes partes do mundo.
A pesar de que Torrente Ballester afirmase 'escribir desde el gallego', Alfredo Conde releu a estructura de tempos verbais da obra orixinal para comprender a súa estructura literaria e adaptala ao galego -posteriormente, o libro en galego sería editado por Isaac Díaz Pardo-.
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 Gonzalo Torrente Ballester - The Prince of Asturias Foundation
Gonzalo Torrente Ballester, considered to be one of the greatest authors of the contemporary Spanish novel, was born in El Ferrol (La Coruña) on the 13th June 1910.
In 1981, forty-two years after being granted this award for the first time, Torrente Ballester won the National Literature Prize again for his novel "La isla de los jacintos cortados".
Doctor "honoris causa" of the University of Salamanca, Torrente Ballester has been a numerary member of the Royal Academy of the Spanish Language since 1975.
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 Gonzalo Torrente Ballester
Finalmente, el hijo de Gonzalo Torrente Ballester, José Miguel Torrente, valoró la elaboración de esta colección puesto que «cualquier vía de promoción...
En su momento, Gonzalo Torrente Ballester y Antón Fraguas tuvieron ocasión de compartir con las autoridades las inauguraciones de las calles que llevan su...
Junto a ellos, las familias de los fallecidos Gonzalo Torrente Ballester (premiado en 1995), Rosa Chacel (1990), Emilio Alarcos Llorach (1993) y Francisco Pino...
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 Gonzalo torrente ballester, - Filmography for Gonzalo Torrente Ballester on MSN Movies
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Since Torrente Ballester's death, the Fundación Gonzalo Torrente Ballester has been set up, with the support of the Spanish crown, to perpetuate his memory.
Gonzalo Torrente Ballester Award in 1982 and the Miguel de Cervantes Award in 1985.
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 Gonzalo Torrente Ballester
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Gonzalo Torrente Ballester (13 de junio de 1910 - 27 de enero de 1999), profesor, novelista y autor de teatro.
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 Gonzalo Torrente Ballester at AllExperts
Gonzalo Torrente Ballester (June 13, 1910 - January 27, 1999) was a Galician writer.
He was born in Ferrol and received his first education there, subsequently attending the universities of Santiago de Compostela and Oviedo.
*Site about Torrente Ballester maintained by Ferrol municipality, in Spanish and Galician.
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Cuadernos De UN Vate Vago/Notebook of a Wandering Poet by Torrente Ballester (Paperback - Jan 1989)
by Gonzalo Torrente Ballester (Hardcover - Sep 1 1993)
Gonzalo Torrente Ballester by Janet Perez (Hardcover - April 1984)
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 Spanish Literature - MSN Encarta
Other postwar novelists include prizewinning Basque author Juan Antonio de Zunzunegui and several who represented the reigning fascist aesthetes, including Rafael Sánchez Mazas, Max Aub, and the prizewinning Galician author Gonzalo Torrente Ballester, who gained popularity when his trilogy, Los gozos y las sombras (1956-62) became a bestseller.
In La saga/fuga de J.B. (1972), Torrente Ballester opened the road to the interweaving of fantasy and reality, a technique followed by the prizewinning Galician novelist Álvaro Cunqueiro.
After the Spanish Civil War, Spanish literature focused on existence as grotesque, brutal, and full of horror and violence.
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 Ballester, birthdate - astrology natal chart of Ballester,
Ballester, birthdate - astrology natal chart of Ballester,
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For the Moon: A child giving birds a drink at a fountain.
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 Gonzalo Torrente Ballester - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gonzalo Torrente Ballester (June 13, 1910 - January 27, 1999) was a Galician writer.
Site about Torrente Ballester maintained by Ferrol municipality, in Spanish and Galician.
This page was last modified 18:16, 4 October 2006.
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 Foreign Language Faculty Profile
"Technology, Nature, and Dehumanization in Gonzalo Torrente Ballester's Quizá nos lleve el viento al infinito.
"Ideología y sujeto en La saga/fuga de J.B. de Gonzalo Torrente Ballester." Hispanic Journal 16.2 (Fall 1995): 399-416.
"Of Narrative Strategies and Practical Jokes: A Meta-Reading of Gonzalo Torrente Ballester's La saga/fuga de J.B. Romance Languages Annual 7 (1995): 527-531.
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Ésta es la página oficial del del escritor Gonzalo Torrente Ballester (1910-1999).
Campana y Piedra SL es la sociedad propietaria y gestora de los derechos de propiedad intelectual de Gonzalo Torrente Ballester.
Gonzalo Torrente Ballester donó todo su patrimonio documental a la Fundación que lleva su nombre
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 Graduate Programs in Spanish
Since 1971, when the doctoral program was started, it has graduated more than 50 students with a Ph.D. degree.
One of the first faculty members of the University to have the title of Distinguished Professor was Gonzalo Torrente Ballester, the Spanish novelist.
He was followed as Distinguished Professor by Raúl Castignino, the Argentine literary critic, and Manuel Alvar, the Spanish linguist who, prior to his retirement in 1998, had also been President of the Real Academia Española.
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 Gonzalo Torrente Ballester, Award-Winning Novelist, 88 - Free Preview - The New York Times   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Gonzalo Torrente Ballester, Award-Winning Novelist, 88 - Free Preview - The New York Times
DISPLAYING ABSTRACT - Gonzalo Torrente Ballester, novelist who drew heavily on myths and witchcraft lore of his native Galicia and won top literary prizes, dies at age of 88
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