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Jorge Guillén

Died in 1984

Jorge Guillén was born in Valladolid in 1893. After a stay in Switzerland, he studied in Madrid and Granada, succeeded Pedro Salinas as lecturer in Spanish at the Sorbonne, defended a thesis on Góngora and taught literature at Murcia, where he founded the journal Verso y Prosa, then at Oxford and Seville. Briefly imprisoned in Pamplona at the start of the civil war, he left in 1938 for the United States and taught at Wellesley College until 1957. The first winner of the Cervantes Prize, in 1976, he died in Málaga in 1984.

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