Unbeknownst to most Albany residents, one of Spain's major writers lived among us from 1966 to 1972 (and, as it happens, spent an inordinate amount of time hanging out at Stuyvesant Plaza because he didn't own a car). In Spain, Gonzalo Torrente Ballester's image appears on postage stamps; while in the U.S., it is difficult even to find his literary works in English translation.
UAlbany celebrated the late Gonzalo Torrente Ballester, Distinguished Professor of Spanish, this past October. A new 35 minute documentary about his life that was screened on that occasion has recently been posted on the Web, and can be accessed in two parts via the UAlbany Library website.
