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Gerardo Diego Cendoya (October 3, 1896 – July 8, 1987) was a Spanish
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(in Spanish) {{DEFAULTSORT:Diego, Gerardo 1896 births 1987 deaths People from Santander, Spain Writers from Cantabria Members of the Royal Spanish Academy Premio Cervantes winners Spanish people of the Spanish Civil War (National faction) Falangists Generation of '27 Spanish male poets 20th-century Spanish poets University of Salamanca alumni 20th-century Spanish male writers
Gerardo Diego Cendoya (October 3, 1896 – July 8, 1987) was 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 ...
, a member of the Generation of '27
The Generation of '27 ( es, Generación del 27) was an influential group of poets that arose in Spanish literary circles between 1923 and 1927, essentially out of a shared desire to experience and work with avant-garde forms of art and poetry. ...
.
Diego taught language and literature at institutes of learning in Soria
Soria () is a municipality and a Spanish city, located on the Douro river in the east of the autonomous community of Castile and León and capital of the province of Soria. Its population is 38,881 (INE, 2017), 43.7% of the provincial population. ...
, Gijón
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, Santander and Madrid. He also acted as literary and music critic for several newspapers.
Biography
Diego was born inSantander
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. He studied the subjects of Philosophy & Humanities at the University of Deusto, and later at the universities of Salamanca and Madrid, where he earned his doctorate. With Juan Larrea, he founded the Ultraísta Movement in 1919.
He was professor of literature and music. He began his poetic work with ''El romancero de la novia'' (1920).
After discovering the Chilean poet Vicente Huidobro, founder of the Creationist movement, Diego became one of the most enthusiastic followers of Creacionismo. The extensive poetic work of Diego has always varied between the themes and expressions of Vanguardism and the more classical structures of poetry. In 1925, he was awarded the National Prize for Literature for his book ''Versos humanos''. He began to publish the journal ''Carmen y Lola, of Vanguardist character'', in 1927. In 1932 he published ''Poesía española contemporánea''. He was elected to the Spanish Royal Academy
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in 1947. His lifetime accomplishment was recognised with the Cervantes Prize
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 ...
in 1979.
He died in Madrid
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, in 1987, aged 90.
See also
* Café Gijón (Madrid)External links
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(in Spanish) {{DEFAULTSORT:Diego, Gerardo 1896 births 1987 deaths People from Santander, Spain Writers from Cantabria Members of the Royal Spanish Academy Premio Cervantes winners Spanish people of the Spanish Civil War (National faction) Falangists Generation of '27 Spanish male poets 20th-century Spanish poets University of Salamanca alumni 20th-century Spanish male writers