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Vicente Aleixandre

1898 - 1984

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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. 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. Aleixandre's early poetry, which he wrote mostly in free verse, is highly surrealistic. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Vicente Aleixandre is the 654th most popular writer (up from 852nd in 2019), the 194th most popular biography from Spain (up from 262nd in 2019) and the 18th most popular Spanish Writer.

Vicente Aleixandre is most famous for his poem "Poema de los Dioses" which he published in 1959.

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Among writers, Vicente Aleixandre ranks 654 out of 7,302. Before him are Klaus Mann, Eugenio Montale, Jon Fosse, Alexander Pope, Irène Némirovsky, and Jacob L. Moreno. After him are Bruno Schulz, Karl Kraus, Émile Verhaeren, Giacomo Leopardi, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Ze'ev Jabotinsky.

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Among people born in 1898, Vicente Aleixandre ranks 32. Before him are Karl Hermann Frank, Rudolf Dassler, Isidor Isaac Rabi, Rodion Malinovsky, Henry Moore, and Alexander Calder. After him are René Clair, Georges Dumézil, Curzio Malaparte, Willy Messerschmitt, Joseph Murphy, and Princess Charlotte, Duchess of Valentinois. Among people deceased in 1984, Vicente Aleixandre ranks 21. Before him are Johnny Weissmuller, Stanislaw Ulam, Carl Ferdinand Cori, Ed Gein, Martin Ryle, and Pyotr Kapitsa. After him are Ahmed Sékou Touré, Martin Niemöller, Ray Kroc, Janaki Ammal, Karl Wolff, and Anna Anderson.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Vicente Aleixandre ranks 194 out of 3,355. Before him are Joanna of Austria, Princess of Portugal (1535), Marisa Paredes (1946), Pedro de Valdivia (1497), Juan Pujol García (1912), Xavi (1980), and Carlos Saura (1932). After him are Eleanor of Navarre (1426), Xabi Alonso (1981), Peter II of Aragon (1174), Luis de Góngora (1561), Philip, Duke of Parma (1720), and Alfonso VII of León and Castile (1105).

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Among WRITERS In Spain

Among writers born in Spain, Vicente Aleixandre ranks 18. Before him are Henry IV of Castile (1425), Matilde Camus (1919), Juan Ramón Jiménez (1881), Gaius Julius Hyginus (-64), Joan Fuster (1922), and Francisco de Quevedo (1584). After him are Luis de Góngora (1561), Leo Africanus (1494), Tirso de Molina (1579), Columella (4), Lucan (39), and Judah Halevi (1079).

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