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The Hive
Camilo José Cela
The Hive (Spanish: La colmena) (also translated as The Beehive) is a novel written by the Spanish author Camilo José Cela, first published in 1950.
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The Spanish novelist, poet and essayist won the Cervantes Prize in 1995. Though he worked as a censor in Francoist Spain, his own writing came under his fellow censors' scrutiny: "La colmena" was published in Buenos Aires and banned in Spain for its erotic themes.
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