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Pedro Salinas

1891 - 1951

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Pedro Salinas y Serrano (27 November 1891 – 4 December 1951) was a Spanish poet, a member of the Generation of '27, as well as a university teacher, scholar and literary critic. In 1937, he delivered the Turnbull lectures at Johns Hopkins University. These were later published under the title Reality and the Poet in Spanish Poetry. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Pedro Salinas is the 3,240th most popular writer (down from 3,125th in 2019), the 1,068th most popular biography from Spain (down from 1,025th in 2019) and the 116th most popular Spanish Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Pedro Salinas ranks 3,240 out of 7,302. Before him are Juana de Ibarbourou, Remmius Palaemon, Abolqasem Lahouti, Émile Faguet, Ernst Wiechert, and Kim Hyon-hui. After him are Joan Maragall, E. E. Smith, Jien, Abu-l-'Atahiya, Henning Jakob Henrik Lund, and Suzanne Curchod.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1891, Pedro Salinas ranks 143. Before him are Prince Maurice of Battenberg, Milton L. Humason, Otto Ciliax, Wan Waithayakon, Galaktion Tabidze, and Charles Journet. After him are Charles Bickford, Zora Neale Hurston, Oskar Kummetz, José Enrique Varela, Mischa Elman, and Federico Moreno Torroba. Among people deceased in 1951, Pedro Salinas ranks 101. Before him are Charles Dillon Perrine, Ernesto Ambrosini, Gonzalo Queipo de Llano, Mohammad-Taqi Bahar, Abanindranath Tagore, and John Paine. After him are Selim Palmgren, José Enrique Varela, Edgar Rubin, Alphonse de Châteaubriant, Fritz Julius Kuhn, and Angelos Sikelianos.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Pedro Salinas ranks 1,068 out of 3,355. Before him are Ignacio Ramonet (1943), Felicia of Roucy (1060), Jerónimo Zurita y Castro (1512), Kate Brown (1960), Joseíto (1926), and Juan Pizarro (1511). After him are Joan Maragall (1860), Gonzalo Guerrero (1470), Julio Jiménez (1934), Joan Brossa (1919), Paco Ibáñez (1934), and José Enrique Varela (1891).

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Among WRITERS In Spain

Among writers born in Spain, Pedro Salinas ranks 116. Before him are Louis of Granada (1504), Juan Ruiz (1283), Dámaso Alonso (1898), Juan Marsé (1933), Alfonso Daniel Rodríguez Castelao (1886), and Ignacio Ramonet (1943). After him are Joan Maragall (1860), Joan Brossa (1919), Manuel José Quintana (1772), Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo (1450), Ibn Zaydún (1003), and Antonio García Gutiérrez (1813).

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