Poetic Obituaries: [Francisco] Ayala was among the last

of a generation of leading poets and intellectuals of the venerated "Generation of '27," which included Federico García Lorca, Pedro Salinas and Luis Cernuda, and he was a leading Franco opponent during the civil war of the late 1930s. His father and a younger brother had been executed at the start of the war.

from The Washington Post: Acclaimed Spanish writer was a resolute opponent of Franco

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