Rubén Gallego
Rubén David González Gallego ( Russian Рубен Давид Гонсалес Гальего ; born September 20, 1968 in Moscow ) is a Russian writer of Spanish origin who became known for his harrowing memoirs White on Black , which won the Russian Booker Prize . He suffered from infantile cerebral palsy from an early age . Under pressure from his grandfather Ignacio Gallego, who was General Secretary of the Spanish Communists, he was separated from his mother, who was living in exile in Russia, and had to vegetate in orphanages under the most dire conditions. But he struggled through and was able to escape the turmoil of perestroika in 1990 with the help of a nurse, who would later become his first wife. He studied law and English and became a computer specialist, met his mother again and became a father. He later lived in Freiburg im Breisgau before moving to Washington, DC .
He is not known by his actual surname González , but as "Gallego".
Individual evidence
Web links
- English website
- Russian website
- Literature by and about Rubén Gallego in the WorldCat bibliographic database
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| SURNAME | Gallego, Rubén |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | González Gallego, Rubén David (full name); Гонсалес Гальего, Рубен Давид (Russian spelling) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th September 1968 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Moscow |