 Garayo himself appears as a main character in Tomás Salvador's novel "Cuerda de Presos", winner of Spain's National Prize for Literature in 1953, and its 1956 film adaptation by Pedro Lazaga.The story relates the fictional arrest of Garayo in León and his travel back to Vitoria while being guarded by two Guardia Civil officers.In real life Garayo never left the Basque Country.