He also worked in publicity, founding, together with José Ramón Arana, the magazine The Spaniards, a meeting place for expatriate Spanish writers and poets who came to fill the void left by the ephemeral publications The Wandering Spaniard of Jose Bergamín and Romance of the poet Juan Rejano.

[citation needed] Andújar then wrote his books of poetry, his first dramatic works, and his narrative trilogy The Days Before, about the period preceding the Civil War, with, as Rafael Conte has observed, a style inspired by Benito Peréz Galdós, but submitted to an artistic and stylistic purification.

In 1946, he was nominated director of promotions and publicity of the Juárez Book Company and of the famous Mexican editorial The Economic Culture Fund, labors in which he remained for eleven years.

[citation needed] In Mexico, he achieved repute in his vocation as a writer by writing a work that ethically and historically repudiated violence.

[citation needed] Manuel Andújar wrote various novels, stories, poetry, theatre, and essays, but his work was not edited in Spain until 1986, the year in which Alfaguara took the first step upon returning from exile, and now in Jaén, where he left a large part of his work to the Jaén Documentary Archive of Themes and Authors of the Delegation.

It opens with The Plain (1947), the story of a family entrenched in La Mancha, in fact in a pueblo, "Las Encinas", likely an imitation of the Spanish municipality Viso del Marqués.