José Luis Castillo-Puche, writer born in Yecla Curiosity · Yecla, Altiplano, Murcia Image of Yecla, not of the place itself. The novelist, journalist and biographer José Luis Castillo-Puche was born in Yecla in 1919. He won the Premio Nacional de Narrativa twice (1954 and 1982) and was an honorary member of the Hemingway Society in the United States. Photo: Vallejo GOD (CC BY-SA 4.0) What to see and do in Yecla