Gerald Brenan

For the Australian rules footballer, see Gerald Brennan (footballer).

Gerald Brenan
Born
Edward FitzGerald Brenan

(1894-04-07)7 April 1894
Sliema, British Malta[1]
Died19 January 1987(1987-01-19) (aged 92)
Alhaurin el Grande, Spain
Occupation(s)Author, historian

Edward FitzGerald "Gerald" Brenan, CBE, MC (7 April 1894 – 19 January 1987)[2] was a British writer and hispanist who spent much of his life in Spain.

Brenan is probably best known for The Spanish Labyrinth, a historical work on the background to the Spanish Civil War, and for a mainly autobiographical work South from Granada: Seven Years in an Andalusian Village. He was appointed CBE[3] in the Diplomatic Service and Overseas List of 1982.

  1. ^ Partridge, Frances (2004). "Brenan, Edward FitzGerald (1894–1987)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/39799. Retrieved 20 May 2009. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  2. ^ Spartacus Archived 19 July 2012 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ London Gazette awarding CBE (1982)