Manuel Moreno Barranco was a Spanish writer, whose extensive work includes short tales, novellas and novels, and was interrupted at the age of 30, by his violent death at the prison of Jerez in 1963, which has never been investigated.
Barranco was born onApril 1932, at Jerez de la Frontera. His fathers name was Manuel, and his mothers Mara Luisa. In August 1932 his father, prosecuted by the Falangists, fled his home and went to the republican zone some days later, news came that group of republicans which included his father had been shot down at the mountains of Ronda while crossing the nearby of Ronda on its way to Malaga.
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