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Jorge Semprún Maura (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈxoɾxe semˈpɾum ˈmawɾa]; 10 December 1923 – 7 June 2011) was a Spanish writer and politician who lived in France most of his life and wrote primarily in French.
In Paris, in the winter of 1943, Jorge Semprún, a twenty-year-old Spanish-born philosophy student and a member of the Communist Party, was arrested by the Nazi occupiers, tortured, and sent to Buchenwald. Although he survived to lead an extraordinarily...
Jun 7, 2011 · Jorge Semprún died in Paris on 7 June 2011. From 1953, Jorge Semprún (1923–2011) coordinated the communist resistance against Franco in a high and secret position. From 1988-1991 Semprún was the Spanish Minister of Culture.
Jun 10, 2011 · Jorge Semprún, a Spanish writer whose novelistic memoirs (or memoirish novels) drew on his experiences as a French Resistance fighter, concentration camp survivor, Communist organizer and ...
Oct 19, 2017 · Semprún’s life spanned most of the twentieth century, including exile in France due to the Spanish Civil War, fighting the Nazis as a member of the French Resistance, deportation to Buchenwald, clandestine work for the Spanish Communist Party (PCE), his expulsion from the party in the sixties and a successful career as a European writer and ...
- Daniela Omlor
- 2017
Jun 8, 2011 · Jorge Semprun, the Spanish writer and resistance fighter who spent most of his life in exile in France, has died at home in Paris aged 87. He is remembered for his screenplays in the...
Jul 9, 2011 · How shall we remember Jorge Semprún, the writer and political figure who died on June 7, just before after the seventy-fifth anniversary of the event that, more than any other,...
