Editing Miguel Delibes (section)

{{Short description|Spanish writer, journalist and novelist}}
{{family name hatnote|Delibes|Setién|lang=Spanish}}
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| honorific_prefix = [[The Most Excellent|Excelentísimo Señor]] [[Don (honorific)|Don]]
| name          = Miguel Delibes
| honorific_suffix = [[Medal of Merit in Labour|MML]]
| image         = Miguel Delibes (1998) - 1.tif
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| caption       = Delibes in 1998
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| birth_name    = Miguel Delibes Setién
| birth_date    = {{Birth date|1920|10|17|df=y}}
| birth_place   = [[Valladolid]], [[Spain]]
| death_date    = {{Death date and age|2010|03|12|1920|10|17|df=y}}
| death_place   = Valladolid, Spain
| resting_place = Cementerio del Carmen, Valladolid
| occupation    = Novelist, journalist, newspaper editor
| language      = Spanish
| nationality   = Spanish
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| genre         = Narrative fiction, Essays
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| movement      = Post-civil war literature
| notableworks  = ''El camino''
| spouse        = Ángeles de Castro (m. 1946, d. 1974)
| partner       = 
| children      = [[Miguel Delibes de Castro|Miguel]], Ángeles, Germán, Elisa, Juan, Adolfo & Camino.
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| signature     = Firma de Miguel Delibes.svg
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| module = {{Infobox officeholder
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| office        = Seat ''e'' of the [[Real Academia Española]]
| term_start    = 25 May 1975{{efn|Elected on 1 February 1973}}
| term_end      = 12 March 2010
| predecessor   = {{ill|Julio Guillén Tato|es}}
| successor     = Juan Gil Fernández
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'''Miguel Delibes Setién''' <small>[[Medal of Merit in Labour|MML]]</small> ({{IPA|es|miˈɣel deˈliβes}}; 17 October 1920 – 12 March 2010)<ref>{{cite news |last1=Eaude |first1=Michael |title=Miguel Delibes obituary |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/mar/14/miguel-delibes-obituary |access-date=6 January 2020 |work=The Guardian |date=14 March 2010}}</ref> 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 [[List of members of the Real Academia Española#e seat 2|letter "e" seat]].<ref name="rae">{{cite web | url = http://www.rae.es/rae/gestores/gespub000001.nsf/voTodosporId/B8E45A69B856DA0DC1257141003DC3EB?OpenDocument | title = HE. D. Miguel Delibes Setién (1975) | author = Royal Spanish Academy | author-link = Royal Spanish Academy | date = 19 October 2009 | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100630160033/http://www.rae.es/rae/gestores/gespub000001.nsf/voTodosporId/B8E45A69B856DA0DC1257141003DC3EB?OpenDocument | archive-date = 30 June 2010 }}</ref> 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.

He was a connoisseur of the [[flora]] and [[fauna]] of [[Castile (historical region)|Castile]] and was passionate about [[hunting]] and the countryside. These were common themes in his writing, and he often wrote from the perspective of a city-dweller who remained connected with the rural world.

He was one of the leading figures of post-[[Spanish Civil War|Civil War]] [[Spanish literature]], winning numerous literary prizes. Several of his works have been adapted into plays or have been turned into films, winning awards at the [[Cannes Film Festival]] among others. He has been ranked with [[Heinrich Böll]] and [[Graham Greene]] as one of the most prominent Catholic writers of the second half of the twentieth century.{{sfn|Reichardt|2010|p=86}} He was deeply affected by the death of his wife in 1974. In 1998 he was diagnosed with colon cancer, from which he never fully recovered. He died in 2010.