'El tremendo' Spanish writer Camilo José Cela

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After the newscast we look back at the career of author Camilo José Cela on the twentieth anniversary of his death. One of the most popular Spanish writers of the twentieth century and the fifth Spaniard to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, his novels were among the few that dared tell the harsh reality of Spanish life, both before the civil war that tore the nation in two (in his breakthrough novel The Family of Pascual Duarte) and after it (The Hive).”