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Miguel Hernández

Died in 1942

Miguel Hernández was born in Orihuela in 1910 into a family of goat herders. His father took him out of school to look after the flock; he educated himself by reading the classics of the Golden Age, Góngora above all, with books lent to him by a canon and by his friend Ramón Sijé. Settled in Madrid, he became friends with Aleixandre and Neruda. During the Civil War he joined the Communist Party and became a political commissar in the Republican army. Sentenced to death after the war, then to thirty years in prison, he died of tuberculosis in Alicante prison in 1942.

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