{"id":32799,"count":7,"description":"We have a number of very interesting interviews about books on Spain. Journalist and broadcaster Jason Webster chooses his best books on the country<\/a>, choosing a diverse range of books, including a 12th-century adventure story from Moorish Spain, the filmmaker Luis Bunuel\u2019s autobiography, and the Spanish Second World War double-agent, Juan Pujol. Across all of these, he detects a unifying, very Spanish, irrational or surrealist imagination.\r\n\r\nMeanwhile Paul Preston, historian and biographer of Franco, chooses his best books on the Spanish Civil War<\/a>, including books dedicated to Guernica and the mysterious death of Federico Lorca, as well as more general surveys of the conflict. The cook, Samantha Clark, talks about her love of Spanish and Moorish cooking<\/a> and how the fusion of the two inspired her London restaurant, Moro. And Benny Lewis, a polyglot who runs the website Fluent in 3 Months,<\/em>\u00a0chooses his best books on learning Spanish<\/a>.\r\n\r\nThere are plenty of other interviews and books that touch on Spain and Spanish themes elsewhere on the site, such as the artists Pablo Picasso<\/a> and Goya.<\/a>\r\n\r\nThe Spanish literature canon includes \"the greatest novel of the European tradition\" Don Quixote <\/em><\/a>and poetry by Federico Garc\u00eda Lorca<\/a>.\r\n\r\nSpanish authors<\/a> | Hispanic authors<\/a> |\r\n

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