Juan Antonio de Zunzunegui

Juan Antonio de Zunzunegui (21 December 1901, Portugalete — 31 May 1982, Madrid) was a 20th-century Spanish writer who mainly penned works of social criticism on the lives of contemporary people in the cities of Madrid and Bilbao. He primarily wrote novels and short stories, including the novel El premio (1961) which won Spain's National Prize for Literature.[1] His novel El mundo sigue was adapted into the film Life Goes On (1965).[2][3] The 1977 film Two Men and Two Women Amongst Them was based on his 1944 novel Dos hombres y, en medio, dos mujeres.[4]

References

  1. ^ Britannica Editors. "Juan Antonio de Zunzunegui". Encyclopedia Britannica, 17 Dec. 2025, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Juan-Antonio-de-Zunzunegui. Accessed 7 February 2026.
  2. ^ Casado, Marina (10 July 2021). "El Madrid de los cincuenta en 'El mundo sigue', de Zunzunegui". El País.
  3. ^ Fernández-Cebrián, Ana (2023). Fables of Development: Capitalism and Social Imaginaries in Spain (1950-1967). Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. p. 123. ISBN 978-1-802-07805-3.
  4. ^ Goble, Alan (1999). The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter. p. 120. ISBN 978-3-11-095194-3.

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