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Gutiérrez Gamero
A Spanish man of letters who moved easily between journalism, politics, and fiction, he wrote with a close eye on public life in a changing Spain. His career gives his books the feel of someone who knew both the newspaper office and the halls of power.
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La voz de la conseja, t.2 Selección de las mejores novelas breves y cuentos de los más esclarecidos literatos
by Joaquín Álvarez Quintero, Serafín Álvarez Quintero, Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, José Echegaray, Concha Espina, Wenceslao Fernández-Flórez, Gutiérrez Gamero, Antonio de Hoyos y Vinent, J. (José) Ortega Munilla, Alvaro Retana, Diego San José, Bernardo Morales San Martín, Felipe Trigo
About the author
Emilio Gutiérrez-Gamero y Romate was a Spanish journalist, politician, and writer, born in Madrid in 1844 and died there in 1936. Reliable library and academy sources describe him as a public figure whose work crossed several worlds at once: literature, the press, and political life.
He studied law in Madrid and later held a range of public and professional roles, including work connected to jurisprudence and the stock exchange. He was also active in liberal politics, serving as a deputy and later taking on posts in government, experiences that likely deepened the social and political perspective found in his writing.
His literary reputation was strong enough to earn him a seat in the Real Academia Española in 1920. For readers today, he stands out as a writer shaped by real institutions and debates, someone whose books carry the texture of lived experience as well as literary ambition.