Camilo José Cela, winner of the 1989 Nobel Prize for literature, died yesterday in a Madrid hospital from respiratory and coronary failure. He was 85. Cela was best known for his novels "The Family of Pascual Duarte" (describes by the Swedish Academy as the most popular work of fiction in Spain since Cervantes "Don Quixote") and "The Hive" . The Academy praised Cela for his "rich and intensive prose, which with restrained compassion forms a chalenging vision of man's vulnerability". Above, Cela with Prime Minister José Maria Aznar last year, during a Camilo José Cela Foundation event.

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