Manuel Andújar (writer)
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Manuel Andújar Muñoz | |
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| Born | 4 January 1913 La Carolina, province of Jaén, Spain |
| Died | 14 April 1994 (aged 81) Madrid, Spain |
| Occupation | Writer |
Manuel Andújar Muñoz (4 January 1913 – 14 April 1994) was a Spanish novelist, playwright, poet and essayist.[1]
The first years of his life were spent in La Carolina, Linares, and Málaga. At Malaga, he studied at the German College and later at the School of Commerce, studies which were interrupted by the illness poliomyelitis; he published his first articles in literary criticism. In 1932, he arrived in Madrid, where he completed his studies in professional accountancy. He transferred to Lérida and then Barcelona at the end of 1935, where he worked as an administrator. He secretly served in the Communist Party. During the Civil War, he worked as a journalist. After spending time in the concentration camp of Saint-Cyprien (France), he came to Veracruz (Mexico) in the Sinaia. He remained until 1967, with brief stays in other countries of Hispanoamerica and a whole year (from 1956 to 1957) in Santiago de Chile.[citation needed]
In Mexico, he began working at an import business, translating correspondence into English and French. He also worked in publicity, founding, together with José Ramón Arana, the magazine The Spaniards, a meeting place for expatriate Spanish writers and poets who came to fill the void left by the ephemeral publications The Wandering Spaniard of Jose Bergamín and Romance of the poet Juan Rejano.[citation needed]
Andújar then wrote his books of poetry, his first dramatic works, and his narrative trilogy The Days Before, about the period preceding the Civil War, with, as Rafael Conte has observed, a style inspired by Benito Peréz Galdós, but submitted to an artistic and stylistic purification. He worked as a press correspondent and in a watch-making company, which connected him with the world of radio and publicity. In 1946, he was nominated director of promotions and publicity of the Juárez Book Company and of the famous Mexican editorial The Economic Culture Fund, labors in which he remained for eleven years.[citation needed]
