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Vicente Aleixandre: Spanish poet (1898–1984).
Born in Seville (died at age 86).
5 awards including Concurso Nacional de Literatura (Spain, 1923-1973).
Studied at Residencia de Estudiantes.
AWARDS (5)
B
Concurso Nacional de Literatura (Spain, 1923-1973)
WON
B
Grand Cross of the Order of Charles III
WON
B
National Prizes for Literature
WON
G
Nobel Prize in Literature
WON
Biography
Vicente Pío Marcelino Cirilo Aleixandre y Merlo was a Spanish poet who was born in Seville. Aleixandre received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1977 "for a creative poetic writing which illuminates man's condition in the cosmos and in present-day society, at the same time representing the great renewal of the traditions of Spanish poetry between the wars". He was part of the Generation of '27.
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