birth_date: 1898-04-26 00:00:00
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name: Vicente Aleixandre
about: Spanish poet Vicente Aleixandre won the Nobel Prize of 1977 for literature. Vicente Pío Marcelino Cirilo Aleixandre y Merlo received it at 79 years of age. At the time, people barely knew him with just two available small editions in English translation. Two years later, in 1979, Harper and Row brought out bilingual edition of Lewis Hyde of selected poems of Aleixandre, A Longing for the Light . When people left the book to go out print, Copper Canyon published a paperback edition in 1985. Express Books noted in an article on Aleixandre, “A Longing for the Light remains the only readable collection of Aleixandre’s poetry available.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicente... Spanish poet Vicente Aleixandre won the Nobel Prize of 1977 for literature. Vicente Pío Marcelino Cirilo Aleixandre y Merlo received it at 79 years of age. At the time, people barely knew him with just two available small editions in English translation. Two years later, in 1979, Harper and Row brought out bilingual edition of Lewis Hyde of selected poems of Aleixandre, A Longing for the Light . When people left the book to go out print, Copper Canyon published a paperback edition in 1985. Express Books noted in an article on Aleixandre, “A Longing for the Light remains the only readable collection of Aleixandre’s poetry available.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicente... ...more
death_date: 1984-12-14 00:00:00