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Giles Tremlett

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Author & journalist. Biography, history & hispanismo. Narrative non-fiction. The Guardian. Bloomsbury. Elizabeth Longford Prize.

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I am the Madrid correspondent for The Guardian newspaper and website, covering Spain, Portugal and Morocco. I also write on Spain for The Economist. I am the author of two works of non-fiction - "Ghosts of Spain" (a lengthy piece of reportage) and "Catherine of Aragon" (biography - a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week), which have sold some 150,000 copies between them and have been translated into half-a-dozen languages.

My reporting ranges from rapid "news blogging" for the Guardian website, via new…

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Duncan Wheeler reviews ‘El Generalísimo: Franco – power, violence and the quest for greatness’ by Giles Tremlett

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By Duncan Wheeler, Giles Tremlett Verified
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Biography A biographical corrective On 1 April 1939, General Francisco Franco (1892-1975) declared victory in the Spanish Civil War. A forty-six-year-old man with a weak, high-pitched voice, measuring five feet four inches, ‘whose waist and belly had thickened to give him a pear-like profile’, Franco hardly exuded charisma.
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Disgraced Juan Carlos wants to return from exile a hero. But Spain’s murky history still dogs him

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By Giles Tremlett Verified
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Juan Carlos in May 2022. Photograph: Lavandeira Jr./EPA When Spain’s King Juan Carlos fell over and broke his hip while on an elephant hunt with a girlfriend in Botswana in 2012, he probably thought that Spaniards would accept this as a minor gaffe after a lifetime of public service. The monarch had, after all, weathered numerous scandals, including a string of extramarital affairs and investigations into his family’s financial affairs, during the previous 37 years of his reign.
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"Cualquier otra niña habría muerto"

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By Giles Tremlett Verified
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Awards

Foreign Correspondent of the Year

2011 - Foreign Correspondent

Awarded by Spain's International Press Club, or Club Internacional de la Prensa

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