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Spanish writer Miguel Delibes dies at 89

Miguel Delibes, one of Spain’s top novelists whose works portrayed the country’s upheavals following its 1936-39 civil war, died Friday after a lengthy battle with colon cancer. He was 89.

Delibes, a former journalist whose works have been translated into some 30 languages, died at his home in the central city of Valladolid where he was born in 1920, public radio RNE reported citing his family.

“We must remember him as a good person and a great writer,” Education Minister Angel Gabilondo told the radio station, adding the author had a “passion” for writing.

Delibes was operated on for colon cancer in 1998 shortly after he published his last novel “El Hereje” (“The Heretic”), an international bestseller that follows the life of a boy born on the day the Protestant reformation began.

“I am forgetting what I wrote. The same day that I submitted ‘The Heretic’ to publishers I was diagnosed with colon cancer. Since then the only thing I have dealt with has been my health,” the online edition of daily newspaper El Mundo quoted him as saying at the time.

A prolific writer who published about 70 books including novels, short stories and collections of articles, essays and travel chronicles, he received Spain’s highest honour for literature, the Miguel de Cervantes Prize, in 1993.

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