Carmen Laforet (Born Barcelona September 6, 1921– died Madrid, February 28, 2004) was a Spanish author who wrote in the period after the Spanish Civil War. An important European writer, her works contributed to the school of Existentialist Literature and her first novel Nada continued the Spanish Tremendismo literary style,who was begun by Camilo José Cela, with his novel, La familia de Pascual Duarte.