Jorge Semprún

Jorge Semprún Maura was a Spanish writer and politician From 1953 to 1962 during the dictatorship of Francisco Franco Semprún lived clandestinely in Spain working as an organizer for the exiled Communist Party of Spain but was expelled from the party in 1964 After Francos death and the change to a democratic government he was Spains Minister of Culture from 1988 to 1991 He was screenwriter for two successive films by Greek director CostaGavras In 1996 he became the first nonFrench author to be elected a member of the Académie Goncourt which awards an annual literary prize