Miguel Delibes Setién MML (Spanish pronunciation: [miˈɣel deˈliβes]; 17 October 1920 – 12 March 2010) was a Spanish novelist, journalist and newspaper editor associated with the Generation of '36 movement. From 1975 until his death, he was a member of the Royal Spanish Academy, where he occupied letter "e" seat. Educated in commerce, he began his career as a cartoonist and columnist. He later became the editor for the regional newspaper El Norte de Castilla before gradually devoting himself exclusively to writing novels. He was a connoisseur of the flora and fauna of Castile and was passionate about hunting and the countryside. These were common themes in his writing, and he often wrote from the perspective of a city-dweller who remained connected with the rural world. He was one of the leading figures of post-Civil War Spanish literature, winning numerous literary prizes. Several of his works have been adapted into plays or have been turned into films, winning awards at the Cannes Film Festival among others. He has been ranked with Heinrich Böll and Graham Greene as one of the most prominent Catholic writers of the second half of the twentieth century. He was deeply affected by the death of his wife in 1974. In 1998 he was diagnosed with colon cancer, from which he never fully recovered. He died in 2010.

Miguel Delibes Setién (né le 17 octobre 1920 à Valladolid, Castille-et-León et mort dans la même ville le 12 mars 2010) est un écrivain espagnol de la Génération de 36. Au cours de sa très longue carrière, il s'est vu recevoir de très nombreux prix dont le Prix Princesse des Asturies de littérature en 1982, le Prix national des lettres espagnoles en 1984 et le prix Cervantes en 1993 pour l'ensemble de son œuvre, ainsi que le Prix national de littérature narrative à deux reprises : pour Diario de un cazador en 1955, et pour (es) en 1999.