What is Francisco Ayala?
{{Infobox writer | honorific-prefix = [[The Most Excellent|Excelentísimo Señor]] [[Don (honorific)|Don]] | name = Francisco Ayala | image = Inauguración de la sede de la Fundación Francisco Ayala (cropped).jpg | imagesize = | caption = Ayala in March 2007 | birth_name = Francisco Ayala García-Duarte | birth_date = {{Birth date|1906|03|16|df=y}} | birth_place = [[Granada]], Spain | death_date = {{Death date and age|2009|11|03|1906|03|16|df=y}} | death_place = [[Madrid]], Spain | occupation = [[Novelist]] | nationality = Spanish | period = 1925–2009 | genre = | subject = | movement = | influences = | influenced = | signature = | website = {{URL|http://www.ffayala.es/}} }} '''Francisco Ayala García-Duarte''' (16 March 1906 – 3 November 2009) was a Spanish writer. He was the last representative of the [[Generation of '27]]. He was a member of the [[European Academy of Sciences and Arts]] from 1997 until his death. He was known for his short stories about the [[Spanish Civil War]]. His best known works were ''El As de Bastos'' (''The Ace of Staves'', 1963), ''El rapto'' (''The Kidnap'', 1965), and ''El jardín de las delicias'' (''The Garden of Earthly Delights'', 1971). Ayala died in Madrid, 3 November 2009, at the age of 103.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/05/arts/05ayala.html Francisco Ayala, a Spanish Novelist and Literary Scholar, Dies at 103]</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Ayala, Francisco}} [[Category:1906 births]] [[Category:2009 deaths]] [[Category:Spanish writers]] [[Category:Spanish centenarians]] [[Category:Spanish educators]] {{bio-stub}}