Antonio Ferres


Antonio Ferres Bugeda was a Spanish writer and poet, belonging to the so-called Generación del Cincuenta. Several of his works were banned in Spain. Many of his works have been translated into several languages.

Career

Ferres was born in Madrid. Many of the writers who belong to the Generation of the 1950s excel through social-realistic prose. Ferres' debut novel La piqueta was published in 1959. When his subsequent novel Los vencidos was banned by the Spanish censor, Ferres had the novel published abroad. The publication of Ferres' novel Al regreso del Boiras was also banned in Spain because it addressed the repression of the Franco regime. In 1964 Ferres decided to leave Spain to write freely about his native country. From 1965 to 1976, he was a lecturer and professor of literary studies at various universities in the United States and Mexico. Ferres returned to Spain after the death of the dictator Franco in 1976. In his career, Ferres won the Prize Sésame for his story Cine de barrio, the Prize of the city of Barcelona for his novel Con las manos vacías and the Prize for poetry of the city of Madrid for the collection of poems La inmensa llanura no creada.
Antonio Ferres Bugeda died in Madrid in 2020, aged 96.