Miguel Delibes
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Miguel Delibes Setién MML was a Spanish novelist, journalist and newspaper editor associated with the Generation of '36 movement. From 1975 until his death, he was a member of the Royal Spanish Academy, where he occupied letter "e" seat. Educated in commerce, he began his career as a cartoonist and columnist. He later became the editor for the regional newspaper El Norte de Castilla before gradually devoting himself exclusively to writing novels.
Delibes in 1998
Miguel Delibes at age six in a school photograph of the Colegio de las Carmelitas of Valladolid.
Plaque of Miguel Delibes installed by the city of Valladolid as a tribute to his novel The Heretic.
Miguel Delibes's casket at the funeral chapel installed in the reception hall of the Town Hall of Valladolid.
Royal Spanish Academy
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The Royal Spanish Academy is Spain's official royal institution with a mission to ensure the stability of the Spanish language. It is based in Madrid, Spain, and is affiliated with national language academies in 22 other Hispanophone nations through the Association of Academies of the Spanish Language.
Inauguration of the RAE building in Madrid by Alfonso XIII, 1894
Title page of Fundación y estatútos de la Real Académia Españóla (Foundation and statutes of the Royal Spanish Academy) (1715)
Partial view of the library at the RAE
View of the front facade of the RAE building