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Banned and restricted books in Spain
42 titles have been banned or restricted in Spain, recorded across 42 dated, source-cited events, most often for political content.
Top reason
Political content
Stated reasons
- Political content
- 35
- Immorality
- 5
- Religious / blasphemy
- 5
- Sexual content
- 2
- LGBTQ+ content
- 2
By decade
1190s1
1590s1
1770s1
1790s2
1800s1
1920s1
1930s13
1940s10
1950s3
1960s6
1970s1
Documented bans
All 42 recorded events, most severe and most recent first.
The Death of Lorca1971
Bannedgovernment· historical· Political contentsource → Marks of Identity1966
Bannedgovernment· historical· Political content, Sexual contentsource → Autobiografía de Federico Sánchez1964
Bannedgovernment· historical· Political contentsource → Time of Silence1962
Bannedgovernment· historical· Immorality, Political contentsource → The Spanish Civil War1961
Bannedgovernment· historical· Political contentsource → Cancionero y romancero de ausencias1958
Bannedgovernment· historical· Political contentsource → Réquiem por un campesino español1953
Bannedgovernment· historical· Political contentsource → Canto General1950
Bannedgovernment· historical· Political contentsource → El rey y la reina1949
Bannedgovernment· historical· Political contentsource → Campo de sangre1945
Bannedgovernment· historical· Political contentsource → Nada1944
Bannedgovernment· historical· Immorality, Political contentsource → La fiel infantería1944
Bannedgovernment· historical· Immoralitysource → La vida sencilla1944
Bannedgovernment· historical· Religious / blasphemysource → Campo cerrado1943
Bannedgovernment· historical· Political contentsource → The Spanish Labyrinth1943
Bannedgovernment· historical· Political contentsource → Javier Mariño1943
Bannedgovernment· historical· Political contentsource → La familia de Pascual Duarte1943
Bannedgovernment· historical· Immoralitysource → You Can't Be Too Careful1941
Bannedgovernment· historical· Religious / blasphemysource → Homage to Catalonia1939
Bannedgovernment· historical· Political contentsource → Das Kapital1939
Bannedgovernment· historical· Political contentsource → Les Misérables1939
Bannedgovernment· historical· Political contentsource → Bodas de sangre1939
Bannedgovernment· historical· LGBTQ+ content, Political contentsource → The House of Bernarda Alba1939
Bannedgovernment· historical· LGBTQ+ content, Political contentsource → Gypsy Ballads1939
Bannedgovernment· historical· Political contentsource → Fields of Castile1939
Bannedgovernment· historical· Political contentsource → The Tragic Sense of Life1939
Bannedgovernment· historical· Political content, Religious / blasphemysource → Marinero en tierra1939
Bannedgovernment· historical· Political contentsource → The Metamorphosis1939
Bannedgovernment· historical· Political contentsource → Español del éxodo y del llanto1939
Bannedgovernment· historical· Political contentsource → Works (Federico García Lorca)1939–1954
Bannedgovernment· historical· Political contentsource → The Hive1936
Bannedgovernment· historical· Political content, Sexual contentsource → A Short History of the World1922
Bannedgovernment· historical· Political contentsource → Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire du Jacobinisme1802
Bannedgovernment· historical· Political contentsource → Journal de Physique (1790 volumes)1791
Bannedgovernment· historical· Political contentsource → L'An 24401778
Bannedgovernment· historical· Political contentsource → Complete works (Johannes Kepler)1596
Bannedgovernment· historical· Religious / blasphemysource → The Incoherence of the Incoherence1195
Bannedgovernment· historical· Religious / blasphemysource → For Whom the Bell Tolls—
Bannedgovernment· historical· Political contentsource → The Forging of a Rebel—
Bannedgovernment· historical· Political contentsource → San Camilo, 19361969
Restrictedgovernment· historical· Political contentsource → In Evil Hour1962
Restrictedgovernment· historical· Immoralitysource → The Spirit of the Laws1790
Restrictedchurch· historical· Political contentsource → Source: Verboten, built on the banned-books.org Open Censorship Core (CC BY 4.0). Verboten compilation CC BY 4.0.