Semprún Y Pombo, Manuel 1906 1907
Semprun or Semprún may refer to: * Carlos Semprún (1926-2009), Spanish writer * Jaime Semprún (1947–2010), French essayist * Jorge Semprún (1923–2011), Spanish writer and politician * José Alejandro Semprún (born 1973), Venezuelan long-distance runners * Pablo Semprún (born 1964), Spanish tennis and padel tennis player * Patricia Carola Velásquez Semprún (born 1971), Venezuelan actress and model * Manuel Semprún y Pombo Manuel Semprún y Pombo (11 September 1868 – 30 November 1929) was a Spanish lawyer. He served as Mayor of Valladolid (1906–1907) and Madrid (1927). References 19th-century Spanish lawyers Mayors of Madrid Mayors of Valladolid 1929 ...

Carlos Semprún
Carlos Semprún Maura (23 November 1926 in Madrid – 23 March 2009 in Paris) was a Spanish writer, playwright and journalist, mainly working in the French language. Biography The son of the Spanish politician, writer and diplomat José María Semprún Gurrea (1893-1966) and Susana Maura Gamazo, the youngest daughter of Antonio Maura who served several times as prime minister of Spain, he was the brother of the writer Jorge Semprún, father of Diego Semprún and uncle of the essayist Jaime Semprún and the tennis player Pablo Semprún. From 1936 he remained outside of his native Spain (his father José María Semprún Gurrea was a diplomat to the Republican government during the Spanish Civil War) and later continued in exile after Franco's victory. He was a militant member of the Communist Party of Spain during its first years, but left the Party before the expulsion of his brother Jorge. He continued his anti-Francoist militancy in other left-wing groups. In the magazi ...
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Jaime Semprún
Jaime Semprún (26 July 1947 – 3 August 2010) was a French essayist and translator. He was born and died in Paris. Biography The son of Jorge Semprún and nephew of the writer Carlos Semprún, Jaime Semprún was close to the film director Philippe Garrel – he appeared in his movie, '' Le Lit de la Vierge'', 1970 along with Zouzou and Valérie Lagrange – and made a short movie himself, ''Le Meurtre du père'' (1968), and a feature-length movie, ''La Sainte Famille'' (1968), he then turned his interest towards social issues and the Situationist International. He contributed articles to ''L'Assommoir'' edited by Roger Langlais, he published two essays for the Champ libre editions during the 1970s : ''Social War in Portugal'' and ''Précis de récupération''. In 1980 Semprún published ''La Nucléarisation du monde'', an essay in which he denounced the evils of nuclear power. Jaime Semprún was then at the origin of the creation of the Post-Situationist group and journal ''Enc ...
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Jorge Semprún
Jorge Semprún Maura (; 10 December 1923 – 7 June 2011) was a Spanish writer and politician who lived in France most of his life and wrote primarily in French. From 1953 to 1962, during the dictatorship of Francisco Franco, Semprún lived clandestinely in Spain working as an organizer for the exiled Communist Party of Spain, but was expelled from the party in 1964. After the death of Franco and change to a democratic government, he served as Minister of Culture in Spain's socialist government from 1988 to 1991. He was a screenwriter for two successive films by the Greek director Costa-Gavras, '' Z'' (1969) and '' The Confession'' (1970), which dealt with the theme of persecution by governments. For his work on the films ''The War Is Over'' (1966) and '' Z'' (1969) Semprún was nominated for the Academy Award. In 1996, he became the first non-French author elected to the ''Académie Goncourt'', which awards an annual literary prize. He won the 1997 Jerusalem Prize, and the 200 ...
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