Vicente Aleixandre

Vicente Aleixandre was born in Seville in 1898 and spent his childhood in Malaga. He studied law and commerce in Madrid, where he later taught commercial law. In 1917, Dámaso Alonso had him read Rubén Darío, and he came to poetry. Winner of the national prize for literature in 1933, he remained in Madrid after the civil war, where censorship at first silenced his name. He entered the Spanish Academy in 1950, received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1977 and died in Madrid in 1984.

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• PoetryShadow of ParadiseSombra del paraísoVicente Aleixandre · 1944Literature