In 1945, the novel received the Premio Nadal, one of Spain’s most prestigious literary prizes, accompanied by a cash award of 5,000 pesetas, a significant amount of money for the time. Focusing on her writing, Laforet wrote short stories and articles for local journals before composing Nada, her first novel and an instant success with critics and publishers. She studied later in Madrid but did not complete her university education. After the death of her mother in 1934 and the Spanish Civil War (1936-39), she moved back to Barcelona and enrolled as a humanities student at the University of Barcelona.
A novel set in Barcelona in the early 1940s published in Spanish (as Nada) in 1945 in English in 1958.Ī young woman who moves to Barcelona to attend the university and live with her extended family experiences a variety of challenges in her personal relationships as she searches for her own identity.Įvents in History at the Time of the Novelīorn in Barcelona in 1921, Carmen Laforet spent her childhood and adolescence in the Canary Islands ( Las Palmas).
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