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Juan Goytisolo dies in Marrakesh at 86
At once amusing and endearing but direct and somewhat timid, Juan Goytisola, one of the most critical voices in the world of Spanish literature, died yesterday in his home in Marrakesh where he had lived for the last 20 years, at the age of 86. Goytisolo was born into a literary family in Barcelona in 1931and went on to become one of the most respected novelists in Castilian as well as a social commentator and essayist, a critic of the Franco regime and a narrator of the country’s development in the second half of the previous century. The writer moved to Paris in 1956 in search of the freedom he lacked in his own country. Even so his work was centred on Spain and two years ago he was awarded the Cervantes prize.
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