Cela

American

[the-lah] / ˈθɛ lɑ /

noun

Camilo José 1916–2001, Spanish writer.

Cela British

/ ˈθela /

noun

Camilo José (kaˈmilo xoˈse). 1916–2002, Spanish novelist and essayist. His works include The Family of Pascual Duarte (1942), La Colmena (1951), and La Cruz de San Andres (1994). Nobel prize for literature 1989

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He was considered for years to be the leading Spanish candidate to win the Nobel Prize for Literature since Camilo José Cela was awarded the honor in 1989.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 11, 2022

"Faked illnesses, mad rushes and other creative ways of reaching Europe" are now an inevitable choice for migrants, notes commentator Camilo José Cela Conde.

From BBC • Nov. 13, 2021

Ceci Cela Patisserie sued the company for the $70,000 it alleged they were owed.

From Salon • Aug. 3, 2019

Cela had fought on the Nationalist side in the Civil War and worked as a censor; according to one scholar, he also informed on many in his literary milieu under the dictatorship.

From New York Times • Aug. 1, 2019

Cela rentre dans les proc�d�s du bon Dieu; et vous verrez!

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 25 (of 25) by Lang, Andrew

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