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Welcome to the Camilo José Cela foundation,
marquis from Iria Flavia, a cultural institution which has been
set up for the promotion of the culture, knowledge of the work
of his founder and its own research.
Camilo José Cela foundation, marquis from Iria
Flavia, takes up five of the named "houses of the canons",
architectural complex which was built at the end of XVIII
century and restored to provide the inheritance given by Camilo
José Cela, Iria Flavia, Padrón (A Coruña).
The first one is the museum house, where all his
manuscripts can be found, which is something unusual within the
universal literature, his personal library and most important
prizes, among we can find the Nobel Prize in literature (1989).
The museum is placed in three of the three houses,
which are baptized with names of writers from Padrón: Juan
Rodríguez, Macías O Namorado and Nicasio Pajares rooms.
In this museum we can see the great part of
Camilo José Cela inheritance, formed by a library of 40.000
volumes, an art gallery of 529 original plays and several
personal collections of the writer. Besides, the inheritance by
the poet José García Nieto is included as well, personal friend
of Camilo José Cela, which library of 18.000 volumes taken by
the most complete Spanish post war poetry in the Hispanic
literature, as the one from the writer and journalist, José
María Sánchez Silva, author of the most famous children's story,
Marcelino pan y vino.
The last of the houses is used for the railway
worker John Trulock, Camilo José Cela's grandfather, which gets
back, throughout the original objects, the memory of the first
Galician railway line, as the important part of the history of
the Spanish railway. |