Max Aub

1903 - 1972

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Country of citizenship: Spain, Germany, Mexico, France

Native language: French, German

Languages spoken, written or signed: Spanish, French, German, Catalan

Occupation: writer, screenwriter, university teacher, playwright, poet, literary critic, novelist, short story writer

Award received: Guggenheim Fellowship

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Max Aub Mohrenwitz (June 2, 1903, Paris – July 22, 1972 Mexico City) was a Mexican-Spanish experimentalist novelist, playwright, poet, and literary critic. In 1965 he founded the literary periodical Los Sesenta (the Sixties), with editors that included the poets Jorge Guillén and Rafael Alberti. Source: Wikipedia (en)