1916

For forty-five years, Cela occupied the Chair Q of the Spanish Royal Academy of Language and won the Premio Principe de Asturias de las Letras in 1987, the Premio Cervantes in 1995 and, of course, the Nobel 1989. 

The jury on this last prize highlighted the “provocative vision of helplessness in all human being” present throughout all of the author’s output; a vision that soaks “The Family of Pascual Duarte”, where Cela brilliantly recounts the heart wrenching story of desolate soul.