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Spanish writer Ana Maria Matute dies at 88

By Washington Examiner
Published June 25, 2014 12:23pm ET
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Spanish writer Ana Maria Matute dies at 88
FILE - In this Nov 24, 2010 file photo, Spanish novelist Ana Maria Matute poses for the media in Barcelona, Spain after winning the Cervantes Prize, the Spanish-speaking world's highest literary honor. Spanish writer Ana Maria Matute, an award-winning author best known for her books set during the Spanish Civil War, has died. She was 88. She died Wednesday, June 25, 2014 in a Barcelona Hospital, but the cause of death was not given. Matute won many Spanish literary awards, including the 2010 Cervantes Prize. She also won Spain's National Literature Award for Children's and Young People's Literature in 1984 and Spain's National Literature Award in 2007. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez, File) | Manu Fernandez

MADRID (AP) — The award-winning Spanish author Ana Maria Matute, best known for her books set during the Spanish Civil War, died Wednesday. She was 88.

Matute died in the northeastern city of Barcelona where she was born and lived, the Spanish Royal Academy for Language said.

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