Baroja

American  

[bah-raw-hah] / bɑˈrɔ hɑ /

noun

1. Pío 1872–1956, Spanish novelist.

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Baroja British  

/ baˈroxa /

noun

1. Pio (ˈpio). 1872–1956, Spanish Basque novelist, who wrote nearly 100 novels, including a series of twenty-two under the general title Memorias de un Hombre de Acción (1944–49)

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Baroja

The testimonial was delivered in person by Ernest Hemingway, as Pio Baroja, 83, lay dying in his Madrid apartment three years ago.

From Time Magazine Archive

Writers Miguel de Unamuno and Pio Baroja shunned their native language, wrote all their works in Spanish.

From Time Magazine Archive

Pío Baroja is a product of the intellectual reign of terror that went on in Spain after the catastrophe of 1898.

From Youth and Egolatry by Jacob S. (Jacob Sloat) Fassett

My ancestors originally called themselves Martínez de Baroja.

From Youth and Egolatry by Jacob S. (Jacob Sloat) Fassett

One often thinks of Gorki in reading Baroja, mainly because of the contrast.

From Rosinante to the Road Again by John Dos Passos