About Ana María Matute
Ana María Matute Ausejo was a Spanish writer and member of the Real Academia Española. In 1959, she received the Premio Nadal for Primera memoria. The third woman to receive the Cervantes Prize for her literary oeuvre, she is considered one of the foremost novelists of the posguerra, the period immediately following the Spanish Civil War. She published her first story, The Boy Next Door, when she was only 17 years old. Many of her works won her the most important Spanish literary prizes including the Premio Nadal in 1958 for the first novel of the trilogy, Los Mercaderes, the Planeta Prize and the Café Gijón Prize. In 2010 she was awarded the Cervantes Prize, the Spanish-speaking world's highest literary honour. The Hispanic Division, located at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC, has a special recording of Ana María Matute herself reading from her prose work Algunos muchachos.
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