L’antifranchismo di Ernesto Dethorey tra giornalismo e Premio Nobel

Ernesto María Dethorey Camps (Barcelona, 1901 - Stockholm, 1992) was a Spanish journalist based in Stockholm who spent most of his life in Sweden; there he became a cultural mediator between the Scandinavian world and Spanish and Ibero-American literature. His ideology and political commitment during the years of the Spanish Civil War prevented him from going back to his homeland as he was accused to be a freemason by Franco’s regime. Over the following decades, he used his profession to denounce the brutality of the military dictatorship and was always loyal to the Spanish Republican government in exile. The analysis of original documents allows us to cast light on Dethorey’s role behind the scenes of the Nobel Prize for Literature and this chapter focuses especially on the awarding of the renowned prize to the Guatemalan writer Miguel Angel Asturias.