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Jorge Guillén Álvarez was a Spanish poet, writer, university teacher, and literary critic. Born in Valladolid on 18 January 1893, he studied at Universidad Central and earned a doctorate. He wrote in Spanish and was a member of the Generation of ‘27. His notable works include La fuente, La cabeza a pájaros, La voz a ti debida, En torno a Gabriel Miró, and El crimen fue en Granada.
Guillén taught at Harvard University, the University of Murcia, the University of Seville, and Wellesley College. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts. He received the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Miguel de Cervantes Prize, and the Feltrinelli Prize, and was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature. He died in Málaga on 6 February 1984 and is buried in the English Cemetery in Malaga.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 18 Jan 1893
- Died
- 6 Feb 1984
- Works
- 172
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Key facts
- Born
- Jorge Guillén Álvarez , ( 1893-01-18 ) 18 January 1893, Valladolid , Spain
- Died
- 6 February 1984 (1984-02-06) (aged 91), Málaga , Spain
- Spouses
- Germaine Cahen ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1924 ; died 1947 ) Irene Mochi-Sismondi ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1958 ) – died</span>"}]]}'>d. 1984
- Children
- Claudio Guillén , Teresa Gilman née Guillén
- Awards
- Premio Cervantes , Premio Internacional Alfonso Reyes , Hijo Predilecto de Andalucía , Ollin Yoliztli Prize
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Jorge
- Family name
- Guillén
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Spain
- Place of birth
- Valladolid
- Place of death
- Málaga
- Occupation
- literary critic
- Employer
- University of Murcia
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Academic degree
- doctorate
- Genre
- poetry
- Image
- 1929-01-23, La Libertad, Jorge Guillén (cropped).jpg
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- Jorge Guillén
- date of birth
- 1893-01-18
- date of death
- 1984-02-02
- place of burial
- English Cemetery in Malaga
- member of
- Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts
- nominated for
- Nobel Prize in Literature
- birth name
- Jorge Guillén Álvarez
- writing language
- Spanish
- second family name in Spanish name
- Álvarez
- name in native language
- Jorge Guillén
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Encyclopedic overview
Jorge Guillén Álvarez ( Spanish pronunciation: [ˈxoɾxe ɣiˈʎen]; 18 January 1893 – 6 February 1984) was a Spanish poet, a member of the Generation of '27, a university teacher, a scholar and a literary critic.
In 1957–1958, he delivered the Charles Eliot Norton lectures at Harvard University, which were published in 1961 under the title Language and Poetry: Some Poets of Spain. The final lecture was a tribute to his colleagues in the Generation of '27. In 1983, he was named Hijo Predilecto de Andalucía. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature four times.
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