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Archive Home > 2009 > November > 05 > Spanish intellectual Francisco Ayala, 103

Spanish intellectual Francisco Ayala, 103

By Ciaran Giles / The Bulletin
November 5, 2009

MADRID — Francisco Ayala, a novelist, sociologist and one of Spain’s leading scholars, died Tuesday at age 103 after outliving the dictatorship that led him to flee into exile.

Ayala’s foundation said he died of natural causes at his home in Madrid.

Ayala won many prestigious prizes in Spain,....

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