Nobel prize

Camilo José was born in the parish of Iria Flavia, beloning to the end of Padrón, in the province of la Coruña, on May 11, 1.1916. His father (Camilo Cela Crisanto and Fernandez) was Galician and English mother and Italian descent (Camila Emanuela Trulock and Bertorini).

In 1.931, her had to be admitted to the TB Santorium de Guadarrama, an experience that later took the opportunity to rest his novel Pavilion. He spent periods of inaction that his illness imposed on him in intense readings Ortega and Gasset the collection of Spanish classics Rivadeneyra, as he said later.

After the war showed indecision in college and went to work in a office of Textile Indurstries, where he began to write what will be The Family of Pascual Duarte, was given the Nobel prize in Literature in 1.989.