Gerald Brenan

1894 - 1987

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country of citizenship: United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

languages spoken, written or signed: English, Spanish

educated at: Radley College

occupation: historian of Modern Age, historian, writer, hispanist

award received: Military Cross, Commander of the Order of the British Empire

Edward FitzGerald "Gerald" Brenan, CBE, MC (7 April 1894 – 19 January 1987) was a British writer and hispanist who spent much of his life in Spain. Brenan is probably best known for The Spanish Labyrinth, a historical work on the background to the Spanish Civil War, and for a mainly autobiographical work South from Granada: Seven Years in an Andalusian Village. He was appointed CBE in the Diplomatic Service and Overseas List of 1982. Source: Wikipedia (en)