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Jorge Semprún Maura (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈxoɾxe semˈpɾum ˈmawɾa]; 10 December 1923 – 7 June 2011) was a Spanish writer and politician who lived in France most of his life and wrote primarily in French.
In Paris, in the winter of 1943, Jorge Semprún, a twenty-year-old Spanish-born philosophy student and a member of the Communist Party, was arrested by the Nazi occupiers, tortured, and sent to Buchenwald.
Jun 10, 2011 · Jorge Semprún, a Spanish writer whose novelistic memoirs (or memoirish novels) drew on his experiences as a French Resistance fighter, concentration camp survivor, Communist organizer and ...
Oct 19, 2017 · Semprún’s life spanned most of the twentieth century, including exile in France due to the Spanish Civil War, fighting the Nazis as a member of the French Resistance, deportation to Buchenwald, clandestine work for the Spanish Communist Party (PCE), his expulsion from the party in the sixties and a successful career as a European writer and publ...
- Daniela Omlor
- 2017
Jun 7, 2011 · From 1953, Jorge Semprún (1923–2011) coordinated the communist resistance against Franco in a high and secret position. From 1988-1991 Semprún was the Spanish Minister of Culture.
To mark the centenary of his birth, this documentary revisits the life of Spanish writer Jorge Semprún, who was a concentration camp survivor, an underground...
Jul 9, 2011 · How shall we remember Jorge Semprún, the writer and political figure who died on June 7, just before after the seventy-fifth anniversary of the event that, more than any other,...
