José María Sánchez-Silva y García-Morales (11 November 1911 – 13 January 2002) was a Spanish writer.
[1] He received the Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 1968 for his contribution to children's literature.
His father, also José María Sánchez Silva, was a journalist close to anarchism, writing in the journal Earth, who went into exile in 1939.
During the Spanish Civil War, he remained in the Republican zone in Madrid, working with the Falange until Nationalist troops entered the city.
Together with José Luis Sáenz de Heredia, he was the author of the screenplay of the movie Franco, ese hombre, a biography in the caudillo.