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more general categories information about this item 10. Noble Prize 10. Noble Prize Literature (114) 11. Award Year 11. Award Year 1970s (104) 1977 (11) 12. Winner Type 12. Winner Type Person (904) 13. Gender 13. Gender Male (853) 14. Birth Year 14. Birth Year 1890s (65) 1898 (7) 15. Place of Birth 15. Place of Birth Europe (459) Europe, southern (30) Spain (7) Seville (1) 16. Death Year 16. Death Year 1980s (66) 1984 (7) 17. Place of Death 17. Place of Death Europe (331) Europe, southern (27) Spain (10) Madrid (7) 19. Given Name 19. Given Name S-Z (143) V (12) 20. Family Name 20. Family Name A-D (195) A (40) 23. Religion 23. Religion z-Missing value reason (465) Source data not available (465) 24. Age at Award Time 24. Age at Award Time 80 - 89 (56) 32. Occupations 32. Occupations Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports, and Media Occupations (123) Media and Communication Workers (117) Writers and Editors (101) Writers and Authors (101) 34. Citizens 34. Citizens Europe (450) Europe, southern (30) Spain (8) 42. Affilliation with College or University 42. Affilliation with College or University Europe (535) Europe, southern (24) Spain (8) Madrid (8) Complutense University of Madrid (7) Alumni (6) 43. Affilliation with Secondary School 43. Affilliation with Secondary School Europe (60) Europe, southern (4) Spain (4) Madrid (4) San Isidro (4) 44. Memberships 44. Memberships R-T (460) R (448) Real Academia Española (5) 45. Other Awards 45. Other Awards M-N (333) N (205) National Prizes for Literature (1) O-P (364) P (242) Premio de la Crítica Española (1) complete name: Vicente Aleixandre nobel prize: literature award year: 1977 prize share: Prize share: 1/1 rational: The Nobel Prize in Literature 1977 was awarded to Vicente Aleixandre "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." biography: Biography laureate facts: Facts laureate lecture: Lecture given name: Vicente family name: Aleixandre occupation: writer occupation: teacher occupation: poet description: Vicente Aleixandre 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. 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 gay poets of Spanish literature alongside Cernuda and Lorca. The melancholia of his poetry was also the melancholy of failed or ephemeral love affairs. He died in Madrid in 1984. image copyright: Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive. image citation: The Nobel Prize in Literature 1977. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Media AB 2018. <https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1977/summary/> date birth: 1898 date death: 1984 usual name: Vicente Aleixandre
