Francisco Brines Bañó (22 January 1932 – 20 May 2021) was a Spanish poet.

Biography

Brines was born in

Oliva Oliva () is a municipality in the ''comarca'' of La Safor in the Valencian Community, Spain. To its east lie of coastline and beaches fronting the Mediterranean Sea, and eight kilometres to the north is Gandia. The ''Passeig'' (promenade) run ...

(

Valencia Valencia ( va, València) is the capital of the autonomous community of Valencia and the third-most populated municipality in Spain, with 791,413 inhabitants. It is also the capital of the province of the same name. The wider urban area al ...

). He is regarded as one of the Generation of '50 of Spanish poets, along with Claudio Rodríguez,

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and Ángel González. His poetry collections include: ''Las brasas'' (1960), ''Palabras a la oscuridad'' (1966), ''Aún no'' (1971), ''Insistencias en Luzbel'' (1977), ''El otoño de las rosas'' (1986) and ''La última costa'' (1995). His collected poems ''Ensayo de una despedida'' were published in 1997. He won numerous prizes including the Crítica Prize (1966), the National Poetry Prize (1986), the

Fastenrath Award Two institutions grant the Fastenrath Awards: Fundación Premio Fastenrath awards writers of Spanish nationality and their Spanish works and Premi Fastenrath for Catalan works. Both were instituted with the posthumous legacy of Johannes Fastenrat ...

(1998), the Federico García Lorca Prize (2007) and the Premio Reina Sofía de Poesia Iberoamericana (2011). He won the prestigious Premio Nacional de las Letras Españolas in 1999. Brines was elected to Seat ''X'' of the Real Academia Española on 19 April 2001, he took up his seat on 21 May 2006. He was elected to the seat vacated by

Antonio Buero Vallejo Antonio Buero Vallejo (September 29, 1916 – April 29, 2000) was a Spanish playwright associated with the Generation of '36 movement and considered the most important Spanish dramatist of the Spanish Civil War. Biography During his career ...

. In 2020 he won the

Premio Cervantes The Miguel de Cervantes Prize ( es, Premio de Literatura en Lengua Castellana Miguel de Cervantes) is awarded annually to honour the lifetime achievement of an outstanding writer in the Spanish language. History The prize was established in 1975 ...

, the most important literary award of the Spanish language world. He taught

Spanish literature Spanish literature generally refers to literature ( Spanish poetry, prose, and drama) written in the Spanish language within the territory that presently constitutes the Kingdom of Spain. Its development coincides and frequently intersects wi ...

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and

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. He lived in his native Oliva. Brines died on 20 May 2021, aged 89, at his home after being admitted to the hospital for a few days for a hernia operation.Muere el poeta Francisco Brines a los 89 años de edad tras varios días hospitalizado

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* * 1932 births 2021 deaths Spanish poets Writers from the Valencian Community People from Safor Members of the Royal Spanish Academy Academics of the University of Oxford Academics of the University of Cambridge Spanish male poets Spanish LGBT writers Premio Cervantes winners {{Spain-poet-stub