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born: 5/11/1916
died: 1/17/2002
born as: Camilo Jose Cela Trulock
nationality: Spain

Spanish writer who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1989. His literary works are characterized by experimentation and innovation in form and content. Cela is also credited by some critics with having established the narrative style known as tremendismo, a tendency to emphasize violence and grotesque imagery.