
author
1873–1971
A restless, worldly voice in Spanish letters, he turned journalism, travel, and exile into fiction and memoirs that feel lively and immediate. Best known as a prolific novelist and chronicler of bohemian life, he wrote across decades of major change in Spain and beyond.

by Eduardo Zamacois

by Eduardo Zamacois

by Eduardo Zamacois

by Eduardo Zamacois

by Eduardo Zamacois

by Eduardo Zamacois

by Eduardo Zamacois

by Eduardo Zamacois

by Eduardo Zamacois

by Eduardo Zamacois

by Eduardo Zamacois
Born in Cuba in 1873 and raised between several countries, Eduardo Zamacois became a Cuban-Spanish novelist and journalist whose career moved easily between literature and the press. He was especially associated with the boom in short novels in Spain and with the bohemian literary world of the early 20th century.
His life was unusually international. He spent important years in Paris, wrote prolifically in Spain, and after the Spanish Civil War lived in exile in the Americas. That wide experience gave his work a cosmopolitan flavor, while his journalism kept his writing alert to everyday life, politics, and social change.
Remembered for both fiction and memoir, he left behind a large body of work and the portrait of a writer who stayed active for decades. He died in Buenos Aires in 1971, having witnessed — and written through — nearly a century of upheaval.