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The Writer and Literary Critic José maría Guelbenzu Dies at the Age of 81

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The writer and literary critic José María Guelbenzu has died at 81 years of age in Madrid, as El País advanced, a medium in which he collaborated. Guelbenzu had published his latest novel, A Drop of Affection, a few months ago. Born in Madrid on 14 April 1944, Guelbenzu was a key figure in Spanish literature since the 1960s. He began studies in Law and Business Management, but soon abandoned them to devote himself fully to literature and publish…

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The writer and literary critic José María Guelbenzu has died at 81 years of age in Madrid, as El País advanced, a medium in which he collaborated. Guelbenzu had published his latest novel, A Drop of Affection, a few months ago. Born in Madrid on 14 April 1944, Guelbenzu was a key figure in Spanish literature since the 1960s. He began studies in Law and Business Management, but soon abandoned them to devote himself fully to literature and publish…

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As from lightning, at 81 years old, José María Guelbenzu died this Friday , editor, writer, literary critic, a person so good that in none of those lines left another trace that of the quality of his way of being . He was the first peninsular writer and editor that I met when I was a boy in Tenerife and quoted me

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In this hour of farewell, we may not be fully aware of the loss of José María Guelbenzu (Madrid, 1944-2025) and his positional importance in the last half century of Spanish literature. In this world of vertigo and artificial intelligences, it is also not easy to relive his novel and toning arrival to the expressive moors of Francoism, where a casticist and secular literature persisted and persisted. Continue reading...

·Granada, Spain
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José María Guelbenzu, one of the authors who promoted the renewal of the Spanish narrative in the 1970s, died today at the age of 81. Miguel Ángel Serrano, writer and friend of the author of The Mercury and of so many other novels, evokes his friendship with the writer who died in this excited article.

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The writer, journalist and critic José María Guelbenzu (Madrid, 1944) died this Friday at the age of 81 in the capital of Spain, according to El País, a medium with which he collaborated. He began his career in Cuadernos magazine for dialogue. In 1970 he joined Taurus and assumed his editorial direction seven years later, a position that he would reconcile since 1982 with the publishing director of Alfaguara. In 1988 he left both positions to de…

·Madrid, Spain
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Writer and literary critic José María Guelbenzu (Madrid, 1944) died this Friday at the age of 81, as reported by the publisher Siruela.

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El Pais broke the news in Spain on Friday, July 18, 2025.
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