Editing Miguel Delibes (section)

=== Early life and training ===
[[File:Miguel Delibes de niño.jpg|thumb|200px | Miguel Delibes at age six in a school photograph of the Colegio de las Carmelitas of Valladolid.]] 
Miguel Delibes was born in [[Valladolid]] on 17 October 1920, the third of eight children from the marriage between María Setién and Adolfo Delibes. His father was born and died in the [[Cantabria]]n town [[Molledo]], where Miguel spent many summers. The writer was named an adopted son of Valladolid in 2009.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.eldiariomontanes.es/20090712/region/molledo/molledo-saldo-deuda-miguel-20090712.html|title=Molledo saldó su deuda con Miguel Delibes con su familia como testigo|date=12 July 2009}}</ref> The name ''Delibes'' was of French origin and came from [[Toulouse]]. Miguel's grandfather was the brother of the French composer [[Léo Delibes]], and had moved to Spain to participate in the construction of the railway in [[Cantabria]].<ref>{{cite web|url =http://canales.nortecastilla.es/delibes/semblanza/sembio.html |title =Semblanza biográfica |author =El Norte de Castilla |author-link =El Norte de Castilla |access-date =12 March 2010}}</ref> His father was a law professor at the Valladolid Business School.<ref name="EscuelaInternacional">{{cite web |url=http://www.escuelai.com/spanish_culture/literatura/migueldelibes-biografia.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050308094532/http://www.escuelai.com/spanish_culture/literatura/migueldelibes-biografia.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=8 March 2005 |title=Miguel Delibes |author=Escuela Internacional del Español |access-date=19 October 2009 }}</ref> Miguel attended the College of Our Lady of Lourdes in Valladolid. After the outbreak of the [[Spanish Civil War]], he enlisted in the [[Spanish Navy|Navy]] on the Nationalist side in 1938. He served on the [[Spanish cruiser Canarias|cruiser Canarias]], which operated in the [[Mallorca]]n region.<ref name="EscuelaInternacional" /><ref name="p. 29">Dirección General del Libro y Bibliotecas (Ministerio de Cultura) ‘‘Miguel Delibes: Premio Nacional de las Letras Españolas 1991’’, p. 29</ref> At the end of the war in 1939, he returned to his home town, where he studied commerce and law. He then enrolled at the ''Escuela de Artes y Oficios'' (School of Arts and Crafts) of Valladolid, where he honed his artistic skills. In 1941 he secured a job as a [[cartoonist]] with the leading newspaper of Valladolid, ''[[El Norte de Castilla]]''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://canales.nortecastilla.es/150aniversario2/index.htm |title =150 años de El Norte de Castilla |author =El Norte de Castilla |author-link =El Norte de Castilla |date =17 October 2006}}</ref>

On April 23, 1946, he married Ángeles de Castro, who later became one of his greatest literary inspirations.<ref name = "p. 30">Dirección General del Libro y Bibliotecas (Ministerio de Cultura) ''Miguel Delibes: Premio Nacional de las Letras Españolas 1991'', p. 30.</ref> They spent their honeymoon in [[Molledo]], [[Cantabria]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://canales.nortecastilla.es/delibes/crono01/cro01.htm |title =Miguel Delibes: cronología 1920-46 |author=El Norte de Castilla |author-link=El Norte de Castilla |access-date =19 October 2009}}</ref>