Jorge Semprn: The Spaniard Who Survived the Nazis and Conquered Paris [Hardcover]

Spanish by birth, Parisian by adoption, Sempr?n (1923-2011) was a legendary figure on the front lines of twentieth-century European history. During the first half of his life he was an exile of the Spanish Civil War, a member of the French Resistance, a Nazi camp survivor, and clandestine agent for the Spanish Communist Party. After repeatedly risking his life from the 1930s to the 1960s, he reinvented himself as a prolific writer who turned the extraordinary material from his own life into a series of autobiographical novels, beginning with The Long Voyage, his 1963 masterpiece about his deportation to Buchenwald. Sempr?n was equally at home amongst the madrile?os of his childhood, fellow prisoners of the Buchenwald concentration camp, politicians, and artists and writers, such as his close friend Yves Montand or Gabriel Garc?a M?rquez. He is best known internationally as a prize-winning novelist and memoirist, and an Oscar-nominated screenwriter. In collaboration with Alain ResnaisSoledad Fox Maura is Professor of Spanish, Comparative Literature, and affiliated faculty in the Jewish Studies Program at Williams College, Massachusetts. She is the author of two other books: A Spanish Woman in Love and War: Constancia de la Mora and Flaubert and Don Quijote: The Influence of Cervantes on Madame Bovary; and many articles and reviews. She has been interviewed by the BBC, Radio Sefarad, The New Yorker, El Mundo, El Pa?s, Europa Press, and Radio Nacional de Espa?a on her biographical work.