# Who wrote Nada (Nothing), a novel about the years after the Spanish Civil War?

Question 4004 · Task 4 · Culture and history of Spain · CCSE 2026

**In Spanish, as in the exam:** ¿Quién escribió Nada, una novela sobre la posguerra española?

- a) Carmen Laforet. (Carmen Laforet.) · Right answer
- b) Ana María Matute. (Ana María Matute.)
- c) María Dueñas. (María Dueñas.)

**Right answer:** a) Carmen Laforet.

## Why

Carmen Laforet published Nada in 1945 and with it she won the first Premio Nadal (Nadal Prize). The novel tells the life of a young woman in Barcelona after the war. Ana María Matute and María Dueñas are other Spanish writers.

Question 4004 of the Manual de preparación de la prueba CCSE 2026 © Instituto Cervantes: https://cervantes.org/sites/public/produccion/files/2026-10/manual-preparacion-prueba-ccse-2026.pdf

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