Chaves Nogales, a feather in the cap of dogma

His reporting and exile took him to the four corners of Europe to document the upheavals of his time. Today, Seville's Manuel Chaves Nogales has re-emerged as the best Spanish journalist of the 20th century.

Manuel Chaves Nogales: this name had disappeared from memory for decades. Condemned to oblivion by Franco's dictatorship and timidly rehabilitated with the return of democracy, it's only in the 21st century that his figure has re-emerged with force, embodying the «Third Spain», the one that was neither fascist nor revolutionary during the Civil War. Those Spaniards who, often at the risk of their lives, refused to accept doctrinaire blinkers.

Né à Séville en 1897 dans une famille de journalistes, Chaves Nogales n’a que 13 ans lorsqu’il commence à travailler au sein des rotatives locales. Viennent alors les reportages, l’incessante quête d’histoires dâ