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Juan Goytisolo in 1985 in Paris.
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Juan Goytisolo
Died on June 4, 2017 at age 86
One of Spain’s most celebrated writers, Mr. Goytisolo produced experimental, linguistically audacious novels and stories that savaged his country’s conservatism, both religious and sexual, and gloried in its Moorish past.
Notable Deaths 2017
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