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Rafael Alberti

Died in 1999

Rafael Alberti was born in 1902 in El Puerto de Santa María, into a family of wine merchants in decline. He moved to Madrid with his family in 1917, at first intending to be a painter and exhibiting at the Salon d'automne, then turned to poetry in the early twenties. He joined the Communist Party after the coming of the Republic and founded the journal Octubre with María Teresa León. Exiled after the Civil War, he lived in Argentina, then in Rome from 1963, returned to Spain in 1977, where he was elected deputy, and received the Cervantes Prize. He died in his native town in 1999.

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