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Succeeded by. Jordi Solé Tura. Jorge Semprún Maura ( Spanish pronunciation: [ˈxoɾxe semˈpɾum ˈmawɾa]; 10 December 1923 – 7 June 2011 [1]) was a Spanish writer and politician who lived in France most of his life and wrote primarily in French. From 1953 to 1962, during the dictatorship of Francisco Franco, Semprún lived clandestinely ...
Jorge Semprún. , The Art of Fiction No. 192. Jorge Semprún, ca. 1970. In Paris, in the winter of 1943, Jorge Semprún, a twenty-year-old Spanish-born philosophy student and a member of the Communist Party, was arrested by the Nazi occupiers, tortured, and sent to Buchenwald. Although he survived to lead an extraordinarily eventful life, to ...
Jun 10, 2011 · Jorge Semprún, Who Blurred Line Between Novel and Memoir, Is Dead at 87. By Bruce Weber. June 10, 2011. Jorge Semprún, a Spanish writer whose novelistic memoirs (or memoirish novels) drew on his ...
Jul 1, 2018 · As soon as he could, Semprún joined the French Resistance, hoping that an end to Fascism would liberate Spain as well. He was arrested by the Gestapo in October 1943, and deported to Buchenwald ...
After being released from a Nazi death camp, Mr. Semprún became a U.N. translator and a Communist activist, returning to Spain in 1953. He was named Spanish culture minister from 1988 to '91.
Oct 19, 2017 · This is worthwhile but has already been done elsewhere (see Daniela Omlor, Jorge Semprún: Memory’s Long Voyage). The same is true for Semprún’s description of the kaddish being recited in Yiddish rather than in Aramaic in L’Écriture ou la vie, which was first picked up by Leon Wieseltier. All in all, the book would also have benefited ...
Jorge Semprún. 10/12/1923 (Madrid, Spain) – 7/6/2011 (Paris, France) Jorge Semprún (1923-2011) during the 60th anniversary of the liberation at the Buchenwald Memorial, April 2005. Photo: Peter Hansen. ©Gedenkstätte Buchenwald. Jorge Semprún was born in Madrid on 10 December 1923. In 1937, early in the Spanish Civil War, he went into ...
