Finally, on 25 May 1975, he delivered his inaugural address to the Royal Spanish Academy. Damaso Alonso, one of the leading members of the Generation of '27 and then president of the Royal Spanish Academy handed the academic medal to Miguel Delibes His induction speech, which dealt with "The meaning of progress from my work," which he later edited into a book entitled "Un mundo que agoniza" (A world that is agonizing). That same year, his twelfth novel "Las guerras de nuestros antepasados" (The Wars of our Ancestors) saw the light. In the next three years, he published several books on hunting and his only book about fishing," Mis amigas las truchas" (My Friends the Trout). This time period closed with the publication of "El disputado voto del señor Cayo" (The Disputed Vote of Mr. Cayo), his thirteenth novel. In 1979, the stage adaptation of "