NMLP P-004003 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

The Hive

Camilo José Cela (trans. J. M. Cohen with Arturo Barea) · Victor Gollancz, London / Farrar, Straus & Young, New York · 1953

True first of the work is the Spanish 'La colmena' (Emecé, Buenos Aires, 1951 — first published in Argentina owing to Spanish censorship). The first English edition is from 1953, issued by Gollancz (UK) and Farrar, Straus & Young (US); priority between the two same-year issues is unsettled.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-004003 for "The Hive" by Camilo José Cela (trans. J. M. Cohen with Arturo Barea) (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-004003, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).