Honored in 2013 with the José Luis Sampedro Award, he published 50 books, including novels and essays (with publishers like Txalaparta, Libertarias, Catedra, Muchnik, Planeta), and gave more than 1,000 conferences around the world.

The writer Andrés Sorel, founder, president and head of culture at the paper Liberación, died last night in Madrid at the age of 81, as was reported today by Jesús Espino, deputy chief at the publishing house Akal and friend of the author of La guerrilla antifranquista (The Anti-Francoist War). Author of more than 50 works, among them ETA, Las voces del Estrecho (The Voices of the Strait) and ...y todo lo que es misterio (…and All Things Mysterious), Sorel was born in Segovia during the Civil War to a Castilian father and an Andalusian mother. He studied teaching, philosophy and literature. Self-exiled in Paris in 1970, he headed the weekly Información Española, which served Spanish émigrés across Europe, and he founded and headed the daily paper, Liberación. During the Franco period he wrote for the Communist Party’s underground press and was an independent correspondent for Radio España from 1962 to 1973. In 1974 he was expelled from the Communist Party over ideological and political differences.

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