Jorge Semprún

Daniela Omlor (University of Oxford)

Ed. by Duncan Wheeler, University of Leeds
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.5.2.07: French Writing and Culture: Postwar and Contemporary, 1945-present.
Vol. editors: Kate Averis (Universidad de Antioquia), Hugo Azerad (University of Cambridge), Patrick ffrench (King's College London), Edward Forman (University of Bristol), Akane Kawakami (Birkbeck, University of London), Siobhán McIlvanney (King's College London), Sinan Richards (King's College London), Tim Unwin (University of Bristol), David Williams (University of Sheffield)

Dates

Born 10 Dec 1923
Died 7 Jun 2011
Activity 1963-2011

Places

Born in Spain
Active in France; Spain

Activities

Primary

Autobiographer
Novelist

Other

Film/TV Script-writer/ Screenwriter
Political writer

Resources

Jorge Semprún was a prolific European novelist and scriptwriter who wrote in both French and Spanish. Autobiographical elements play a role in most of his fiction, in addition to which Semprún also published a biography of his personal friend Yves Montand, a play commissioned for the Kunstfest Weimar, and several essays and speeches.

Born in Madrid in 1923, he was the son of José María de Semprún y Gurrea and Susana Maura y Gamazo, the fourth of seven children. His mother was the daughter of Antonio Maura y Montaner, a statesman and several times Prime Minister during the monarchy, and the sister of Miguel Maura, Minister of the Interior for the Second Republic. His father, a liberal Catholic lawyer, also sympathised with …

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Citation: Omlor, Daniela. "Jorge Semprún". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 14 June 2012 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=13130, accessed 23 April 2024.]

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