- ANTONIO MARIN MUÑOZ.


Born in Lopera, Province of Jaen, Spain, 1970 is a writer and historian specializing in the contemporary history of Spain. Desde young was interested in the world of the letters, history and Literature, study of bachelor in the IES " Our Mrs. of Alharilla " of Porcuna, province of Jaen. Later he studied right in the University of Granada, where he was responsible for diverse cultural and literary activities, that culminated with the obtaining of their degree. Also he made diverse to máster in fiscal, labor and countable consultant's office like improvement of his studies. From 1995 he performs the functions of informative and graphical correspondent of the IDEAL Newspaper in the populations of Lopera and Porcuna, and from 1998 he also collaborates in the Weekly magazine New Jaen taking the news coverage of all the region of the Countryside.

Antonio Marín Muñoz During the month of November of 1997 Week of the environment participated, that organized the Provincial Delegation of Jaen in collaboration with the City council of Lopera. Its conference turned on " The existing zones of environmental impact in the municipal term of Lopera ". The past day 27 of December of 2000 distributed a new conference in the frame of XII the Days of History, Culture and Society of Lopera, that served to deepen on the numerous tracks or warlike vestiges whereupon it at the moment counts the municipal term of Lopera:nidos of machine guns, trenches, refuges, to búnker, bunker antitank, damages caused by the bombings, etc. In the year 2001 the book published "The Civil War in Lopera and Porcuna(1936-1939)". This book contains a biography of the English poets Ralph Fox and John Cornford.

Antonio Marín Muñoz published in the year 2004 the book "The Siege of the Sanctuary of the Virgen de la Cabeza (1936-1937) ", that served to contribute new documentary sources(fountains) on this episode of the Spanish civil war and always from a more objective and impartial point of view (analyzing the version of both decrees). " Postwar period in Lopera (1939-1950) " was his fourth book and in him I approach the period of the pro-Franco repression in Lopera, the autarkic economy of the epoch and the topic of the recovery of the historical memory in Lopera's locality.

In the year 2007 he presented the book "The reconstruction of the province of Jaen under Franco (1939-1957)", which reflects the performance of the Directorate General of Devastated Regions in the province of Jaen. His sixth book came in 2010 with the historical novel "Those terrible years," based on the hard years of the Spanish postwar period.

In the year 2012 published the book "The difficult years in Jaen." This is a historical novel in the United States Of America has been edited by Editorial Portilla Foundation, which recreates the life of a Spanish during the forties in a town of Jaen. We are in a work that constitutes a true reflection of a tormented and miserable period of Spanish life.

His next novel was titled "A nurse at the Battle of Lopera," which was published by Red Circle Publishing. In this book the story of a nurse who develops his work in the Battle of Lopera (1936), during the Spanish Civil War is discussed. You learn about the harsh working conditions at the front, love, deceit, motherhood ...

In the year 2019 he published the novel "Republic. Jaén 1931", edited by the Red Circle Publishing House, and which includes the unique story of the day laborer Andrés Martos who will live the entrance to the Second Spanish Republic (1931-1936). In this book, fiction is mixed with historical data, a good ingredient for history lovers. He is a member of the National Association of Contemporary History. More information on the web www.antoniomarin.com .




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