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José Muñoz Escámez
A Spanish man of letters, journalist, and storyteller, he moved easily between newspapers, literary studies, and children’s fiction. His work also helped carry Spanish folktales to international readers through the English-language collection Fairy Tales from Spain.
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Fairy Tales from Spain
by José Muñoz Escámez
About the author
José Muñoz Escámez was a Spanish writer, journalist, and literary scholar active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Sources agree that he trained in letters and worked for several periodicals, including El Movimiento Católico and La Correspondencia de España, while also contributing to other magazines and cultural publications.
He is especially remembered for his storytelling and for writing tales for the well-known Spanish publisher Calleja. He also published literary and cultural works on figures such as Cervantes and Berlioz, showing a career that ranged from journalism and criticism to popular fiction.
For many readers today, his best-known title is Fairy Tales from Spain (1913), an English-language collection that helped introduce Spanish stories to a wider audience. Library records identify him as born in 1866; some source details about his death differ, so it is safest to describe him as a Spanish author whose career bridged journalism, folklore, and children's literature.