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Pedro Salinas

Died in 1951

Pedro Salinas was born in Madrid in 1891. After studying law and literature, he was a lecturer in Spanish at the Sorbonne, then a professor of literature in Seville, where Luis Cernuda was his pupil, and a lecturer at Cambridge. A translator of Proust, he became secretary general of the International Summer University in Santander. Having left for the United States in 1936, he taught at Wellesley College, then at Johns Hopkins University, with a three-year stay in Puerto Rico. He died in 1951 and is buried in San Juan.

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