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Gutiérrez Gamero
A lively figure in Spanish public life, he moved between journalism, politics, and literature over a long career in Madrid. His work reflects the energy of late 19th- and early 20th-century Spain, with interests that reached from public affairs to the novel.
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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
Born in Madrid in 1844, Emilio Gutiérrez-Gamero y Romate studied law at the Central University and later became known as a journalist, politician, and writer. He was active in liberal politics and served as a deputy during the democratic six-year period in Spain, while also building a career in journalism and public life.
Alongside his political work, he wrote fiction and essays, and his name remained connected to Spain’s literary institutions. He was elected to the Real Academia Española and took his seat there in 1920, an honor that reflected his standing in the country’s cultural world.
He died in Madrid in 1936. Remembered as a versatile public intellectual, he belongs to a generation of writers whose careers crossed easily between newspapers, parliament, and books.