Michael Tierra

Ana María Matute Ausejo (Spanish: [ˈana maˈɾia maˈtute awˈsexo]; 26 July 1925 – 25 June 2014) was a Spanish writer and member of the Real Academia Española. In 1959, she received the Premio Nadal for Primera memoria. The third woman to receive the Cervantes Prize for her literary oeuvre, she is considered one of the foremost novelists of the posguerra, the period immediately following the Spanish Civil War.