Award-winning Spanish novelist Ana Maria Matute has died at the age of 88.
The author — who was regarded as one of Spain’s greatest post-Civil War writers — died of a heart attack in Barcelona, her son told Reuters.
Matute had won almost all of Spain’s major literary awards, including the Cervantes Prize, the Spanish-speaking world’s highest literary honour.
Her best-known works include Los Abel (The Abels) and Los Soldados Lloran de Noche (Soldiers Cry By Night).
Matute and many of her contemporaries, who were scarred by the 1936-1939 war, were dubbed the “generation of the frightened children”.
Her writing depicted the devastation of rural, war-torn Spain from a child’s perspective, BBC informs.
