Carmen Laforet

Born 1921 · Died 2004

From Esquerra de l'Eixample, Catalonia, Spain · Nationality: Spain · Writes fiction

Carmen Laforet (Barcelona, September 6, 1921 – Majadahonda, February 28, 2004) was a Spanish author who wrote in the period following the Spanish Civil War. Her works contributed to the existentialist school of literature, and her first novel, *Nada* (*Nothing*), her best-known work, continued the literary style of Spanish tremendismo that Camilo José Cela had begun with his novel *The Family of Pascual Duarte*.

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Camilo José CelaAuthor of La familia de Pascual Duarte, the book usually cited as the origin of tremendismo, which Nada is often read against.
Carmen Martín GaiteWrites about postwar Spain and young women's inner lives in Entre visillos, with a similar period and social setting.
Ana María MatuteAlso writes about childhood, cruelty and postwar Spain, with a lyrical but harsh style.
Mercè RodoredaWrites about women's constrained lives and inner worlds, though in Catalan and from a different literary tradition.
Miguel DelibesPortrays postwar Spanish provincial and family life with close attention to ordinary detail, as in La sombra del ciprés es alargada.
Elena QuirogaWrites about women and emotional constraint in mid-twentieth-century Spain, close in theme to La mujer nueva.

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