Félix Grande Lara (February 4, 1937, in Mérida - January 30, 2014, in

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) was a Spanish poet and

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expert. He won the

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de Poesía The Premio Adonáis, or Adonais Prize for Poetry, is awarded annually in Spain by Ediciones RIALP to an unpublished Spanish language poem.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 ...

for his poem ''Las piedras'' in 1963. He won a

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for his poem ''Blanco Spirituals'' in 1967. He won a Felipe Trigo Award for ''El marido de Alicia'' in 1994. He was awarded the

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in 2004. He was married to poet Francisca Aguirre, with whom he had a daughter, poet Guadalupe Grande.

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