Carlos Murciano (

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, 1931) is a Spanish

poet A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator ( thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems (oral or writte ...

and

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author, known as well as a

musicologist Musicology (from Greek μουσική ''mousikē'' 'music' and -λογια ''-logia'', 'domain of study') is the scholarly analysis and research-based study of music. Musicology departments traditionally belong to the humanities, although some mu ...

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, and

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Awards

He has received several major literary prizes, such as the Spanish National Prize in Poetry (1970, ''Este claro silencio''), or the Spanish National Prize in

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(1982, ''El mar sigue esperando''), and runner-up to the 1954

Premio Adonáis de Poesía The Premio Adonáis, or Adonais Prize for Poetry, is awarded annually in Spain by Ediciones RIALP to an unpublished Spanish language poem. Runners-up are also recognized. Named after the collection of the same name, the Adonais Prize was created i ...

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References

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