Ramón J. Sender

(Huesca, 1901-San Diego, 1982), was one of the most important Spanish writers of the 20th century. He participated in the war in Morocco as a replacement soldier and upon his return he settled in Madrid, where he would soon become one of the most outstanding writers and journalists of his time. The events of the Spanish Civil War – in which his wife and one of his brothers were assassinated – and various personal and ideological discrepancies ended up separating him from his communist militancy. He is the author of a vast narrative work, although he also wrote essays, plays and poetry. His Works include Mister Witt in the Cantón (1935), which won him the Spanish National, Requiem for a Spanish Farmer (1960); The Teen Thief (1965), about the American gunman Billy the Kid, and The Equinoctial Adventure of Lope de Aguirre (1968) on which the famous film by Werner Herzog is based.