Miguel Delibes (Valladolid, 1920) was an author who always suspiciously sealed many of his experiences and creative habits, specifically, enough to fill the 59 cajas that the Miguel Delibes Foundation has managed to compress into 2.2 terabytes of information after two years of work and 221 thousand euros invested by the Vega Sicilia wineries.
As of May 4, the life and work of Miguel Delibes will be transferred to cyberspace for the total enjoyment of the followers of the most illustrious writer of the postwar period.
In cyberspace there are cypresses
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- House of the Book (@casadellibro) April 27, 2016
"My father did not write his memoirs because he was ashamed," said Elisa Delibes Castro, the first-born of the Valladolid author, a few hours ago. President of the Miguel Delibes Foundation, an institution that for the last two years has been trying to transfer possibly the largest digitized archive related to a writer in all history to cyberspace.
The absence of that biography mentioned by Elisa is compensated, however, by the 59 boxes in which they were distributed 14.352 documents belonging to the author of Five Hours with Mario, including own articles written for El Norte de Castilla or El País with annotations, condolence cards for the death of his wife, Ángeles de Castro, in 1974, photographs, negatives and even bills of the loan canceled after win the Nadal Prize in 1947 for The shadow of the cypress is lengthened.
This treasure trove has been digitized thanks to the investment of 221 thousand euros made by the Vega Sicilia wineries, producer of one of the most international wines in Spain and which Delibes mentioned in part of his works.
The capital invested was divided into 66 thousand euros destined to the identification and ordering of all the documents, while the 115 thousand euros restaurants covered the expenses of digitizing the material, allowing the Foundation to compress all this information until the recent announcement of the release of the same on the Internet from next May 4.
Delibes: the man who did not sympathize with the city
Despite being born in Valladolid on October 17, 1920, Miguel Delibes was a lover of the Castilian countryside, hunting and provincial values that were not compatible with life in the big city, the central theme of one of his most important works. known, El camino, published in 1950.
Before the adventures of Daniel the Owl, Delibes was columnist and later director of the newspaper El Norte de Castilla, a work that he combined with the writing of some first works, among which La sombra del ciprés es lenggada stands out, winner of the 1947 Nadal Prize.
Your condition of first recognized postwar writer made Delibes one of the most influential Spanish authors of the second half of the XNUMXth century, a period whose changes occupied part of the pages of a work in which the defense of their own values prevailed, the concern for the deterioration of nature as product of this "evolution", or the break between the two Spains, the central axis of what would become his most famous work: Five hours with Mario, published in 1966.
The 70s were the most bitter stage for the author after leaving El Norte de Castilla due to his disagreements with Manuel Fraga and, especially, due to the death of his wife, Ángeles de Castro, an event that would mark a before and after in life from the author.
Member of the Royal Academy since 1973During the following years, Miguel Delibe experienced the recognition that the total influence of his work in Spain and abroad represented.
The author died as a result of colon cancer that emerged in 1998 and finally succumbed to in 2010, a date on which one of the most popular contemporary authors in our country could still little suspect that his entire life would be available in an also achievable cyberspace for all those Castilian and naked peoples that the author defended.
The biography of Miguel Delibes in photos, documents and articles has been compressed in 2.2 terabytes of information that will be injected into cyberspace during the next week, so that everyone can enjoy the life of one of our great authors with a single click from Wednesday, May 4.
We will be expectant.
What is your favorite work by Miguel Delibes?