Practitioners of "social literature"-a euphemism for veiled political protest-these writers targeted socio-economic injustice with their fiction, poetry, and drama, risking official reprisals and persecution for defending the poor and oppressed. She thereby anticipated by more than a decade the debuts of the Spanish writers with whom she is grouped: the "midcentury generation," which also includes Ignacio Aldecoa, Jesús Fernández Santos, Juan Goytisolo, and Carmen Martín Gaite.
Matute began publishing during the first decade after the Spanish Civil War of 1936 to 1939, along with considerably older writers such as Camilo José Cela, Gonzalo Torrente Ballester, Elena Quiroga, and Carmen Laforet.
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