Zunzunegui, Juan Antonio De

In full �Juan Antonio de Zunzunegui y Loredo� Spanish novelist and short-story writer whose straightforward narrative technique was rooted in the 19th century. His subject was chiefly social criticism of modern life in Bilbao and Madrid. A member of the Spanish Academy from 1957, Zunzunegui received the National Prize for Literature for El premio (1961; �The Prize�), which, ironically, was