1977 Nobel Prize in Literature

1977 Nobel Prize in Literature
Vicente Aleixandre
"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"
Date
  • 6 October 1977 (1977-10-06) (announcement)
  • 10 December 1977
    (ceremony)
LocationStockholm, Sweden
Presented bySwedish Academy
First awarded1901
WebsiteOfficial website
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The 1977 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the Spanish poet Vicente Aleixandre (1898–1984) "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."[1][2] Aleixandre is the first Spanish author living in Spain to win the prize since before General Franco established his four-decade-long civil war of the 1930s because the 1956 recipient Juan Ramon Jimenez was a Spanish Civil War exile living in Puerto Rico.[1][3]

  1. ^ a b The Nobel Prize in Literature 1977 nobelprize.org
  2. ^ "Nobel Prize Goes to Spanish Poet". New York Times. 7 October 1977. Retrieved 23 January 2023.
  3. ^ Ernesto Mendoza (7 October 2013). "From the archive, 7 October, 1977: The loneliness of the Nobel poet". The Guardian. Retrieved 23 January 2023.