Vicente Aleixandre
Spanish poet Vicente Aleixandre won the Nobel Prize of 1977 for literature.
Vicente Pío Marcelino Cirilo Aleixandre y Merlo received it at 79 years of age. At the time, people barely knew him with just two available small editions in English translation. Two years later, in 1979, Harper and Row brought out bilingual edition of Lewis Hyde of selected poems of Aleixandre, A Longing for the Light . When people left the book to go out print, Copper Canyon published a paperback edition in 1985. Express Books noted in an article on Aleixandre, “A Longing for the Light remains the only readable collection of Aleixandre’s poetry available.”
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Born into a traditional family in the Extremadura region of Spain, her family moved to Madrid on her father's' death, when she was 12 years old.
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El 1927 publica Gertrudis i el 1932 KRTU, dos llibres de prosa poemàtica que formen part integrant d'un extens diari que Foix data el 1918. Quan La Publicitat és catalanista, en dirigeix la secció literària i hi col·labora diàriament amb el pseudònim Focius.
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