Vicente Aleixandre
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Birth Date 26 April 1898
Death Date 14 December 1984
Personal Name Vicente Aleixandre
Alternate Names
- VICENTE ALEIXANDRE
- Vicente.- ALEIXANDRE
Vicente Pío Marcelino Cirilo Aleixandre y Merlo (Spanish pronunciation: [biˈθente alejkˈsandɾe]; 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. source