REMEMBERING MIGUEL DELIBES

[A year after he died & his connection with "Rafael Dieste" Secondary School]

Miguel Delibes, the Spanish writer, died a year ago, today, and a few days later, on 23rd March 2010, our school appeared on the local newspaper "La Voz de Galicia" in connection with him. It was remembering when Delibes had written a letter to some students of Rafael Dieste Secondary School in A Coruña.

It was the answer to other 20 letters, which each 14-year-old students had sent to him asking questions about his novel "El camino". They had read it during that course (2001-02). They asked him many questions on the book and its characters and he answered with a carefully handwritten letter. Starting with "A mis queridos amigos galleguiños", he explained about the village where his book's characters lived: Molledo, which is a real village, not in Castille, but in Santander. It was the village where his father was born and where he had spent many summers. He also considered the student's suggestions amusing and interesting and admitted they could have featured in his novel.

Isabel, the Spanish literature teacher, who got her students to write to him, says it was very generous of him to do so.