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Camilo José Cela Foundation

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Camilo José Cela Foundation

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Camilo José Cela, born in Iria Flavia on 11 May 1916 and baptised in the collegiate church of Santa María de Adina, was a member of the Real Academia Española and received, among other honours, the Prince of Asturias Award for Literature in 1987, the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1989 and the Cervantes Prize in 1995; in 1996 King Juan Carlos I granted him the marquessate of Iria Flavia. After his death in Madrid in 2002, the foundation that had received his literary and artistic archive in 1990, based in Iria Flavia, opposite the very collegiate church where he was baptised, preserves his library, his manuscripts and his art collection.

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