Carmen Martin Gaite (Salamanca 1925-Madrid 2000), novelist, poet, essayist and translator, published his first novel The spa in 1955 and is one of the most prominent representatives of the postwar generation. Of his books is noteworthy Between curtains (Nadal 1958 Award), Slow Pace (1963), The Back Room (1978), The never ending story (1983), loving Uses of the Spanish postwar period (Anagram Essay Prize 1987) variable cloudiness (1992), The strange thing is live (1996) or go home (1998). Carmen Martin Gaite has also received the 1988 Prince of Asturias awards and the National Spanish Literature 1994.