José Manuel Castañón, Spanish lawyer and author (died 2001)

José Manuel Castañón

Spanish writer (1920–2001)

José Manuel Castañón was a Spanish writer born in Pola de Lena, Asturias. Although he fought in Francisco Franco’s 1936 military uprising, he later distanced himself from Franco's regime and in 1957 left for a 20-year exile to Venezuela. His best-known novel Moletu-Voleva,…