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Vicente Aleixandre | |
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 Aleixandre in 1977 | |
| Born | Vicente Pío Marcelino Cirilo Aleixandre y Merlo 26 April 1898 Seville, Spain |
| Died | 14 December 1984 (aged 86) Madrid, Spain |
| Occupation | Poet |
| Nationality | Spanish |
| Notable awards | Nobel Prize in Literature 1977 |
| Seat O of the Real Academia Española | |
| In office 22 January 1950 – 14 December 1984 | |
| Preceded by | Félix de Llanos y Torriglia |
| Succeeded by | Pere Gimferrer |
Vicente Pío Marcelino Cirilo Aleixandre y Merlo (Spanish pronunciation: [biˈθente alejɣˈsandɾe]; 26 April 1898 – 14 December 1984) was a Spanish poet who was born in Seville.[1] Aleixandre received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1977[2] "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".[3] He was part of the Generation of '27.
Aleixandre's early poetry, which he wrote mostly in free verse, is highly surrealistic. It also praises the beauty of nature by using symbols that represent the earth and the sea. Many of Aleixandre's early poems are filled with sadness. They reflect his feeling that people have lost the passion and free spirit that he saw in nature. He was one of the greatest poets of Spanish literature alongside Cernuda and Lorca.[4] The melancholia of his poetry was also the melancholy of failed or ephemeral love affairs.[5]
Aleixandre's bisexuality was well known to his circle of friends, but he never admitted it publicly. He had a long-term love relationship with the poet Carlos Bousoño.[6]
He died on 14 December 1984 in Madrid, aged 86.[7]
- ^ Vicente Aleixandre Criticism. enotes.com
- ^ "Biografía español. Vicente Aleixandre, poeta español. Biblioteca español. Instituto Cervantes". www.cervantes.es. Retrieved 21 May 2023.
- ^ The Nobel Prize in Literature 1977, Nobelprize.org
- ^ Vilaseca, David (2003). Hindsight and the Real: Subjectivity in Gay Hispanic Autobiography. Oxford, bern, Berlin, New York: Peter Lang. p. 30. ISBN 9783039100095.
- ^ William Foster, David (1999). Spanish Writers on Gay and Lesbian Themes: A Bio-critical Sourcebook. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. pp. 26–7. ISBN 0313303320.
- ^ Fernández, Víctor (6 March 2016). "Las cartas de amor de Vicente Aleixandre a Carlos Bousoño". La Razón.
- ^ Sorela, Pedro (14 December 1984). "Vicente Aleixandre será enterrado hoy en el cemneterio de la Almudena". El País (in Spanish). ISSN 1134-6582. Retrieved 21 May 2023.