Isaac Montero

Although the work of the Spanish writer, journalist and screenwriter Isaac Montero was highly esteemed by literary critics, Montero did not receive widespread popular acclaim as an author in his lifetime. Fernando-Isaac Hernández Montero was born in 1936, just as Spain plunged into the bloody three-year civil war. As a boy he enjoyed writing poetry and he became aware of his vocation as a writer as a 12-year-old, just after his father's death. When he left school Montero joined the …