José García Nieto (
Oviedo, 6 July 1914 –
Madrid
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, 27 February 2001) was a Spanish poet and writer. In 1996, he was awarded the
Miguel de Cervantes Prize
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History
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. Along with
Gabriel Celaya,
Blas de Otero and
José Hierro
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, he was a member of the post-war generation of Spanish poets.
Biography
José García Nieto was born in
Oviedo, on 6 July 1914, at 8, la calle
Portugalete
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(now, 6 Melquíades Álvarez). His parents were José García Lueso and María de La Encarnación Nieto Fernández.
In 1950, he won the
Premio Adonais for ''Dama de soledad''; in 1955 he won the
Premio Fastenrath awarded by the
Real Academia Española for ''Geografía es amor''.
In 1951 and 1957, he won the Premio Nacional de Literatura de España; in 1980 he won the
Premio Mariano de Cavia.
García Nieto was elected to seat ''i'' of the Real Academia Española, he took up his seat on 13 March 1983.
In 1987 he won
Premio González-Ruano. In 1996 he won 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 ...
.
Works
*''Víspera hacia ti'' (1940)
*''Poesía'' (1944)
*''Versos de un huésped de Luisa Esteban'' (1944)
*''Tú y yo sobre la tierra'' (1944)
*''Retablo de ángel, el hombre y la pastora'' (1944)
*''Del campo y soledad'' (1946)
*''Juego de los doce espejos'' (1951)
*''Tregua'' (1951).
Premio Nacional de Literatura
*''La red'' (1955).
Premio Fastenrath
*''Geografía es amor'' (1956).
Premio Nacional de Literatura
*''El parque pequeño'' (1959)
*''Corpus Chisti y seis sonetos'' (1962)
*''Circunstancias de la muerte'' (1963)
*''La hora undécima'' (1963)
*''Memorias y compromisos'' (1966)
*''Hablando solo'' (1967).
Premio Ciudad de Barcelona
*''Facultad de volver'' (1970)
*''Taller de arte menor y cincuenta sonetos'' (1973)
*''Súplica por la paz del mundo y otros "collages"'' (1973).
Premio Boscán
*''Sonetos y revelaciones de Madrid'' (1974)
*''Los cristales fingidos'' (1978)
*''El arrabal'' (1980)
*''Nuevo elogio de la lengua española'' (1983)
*''Sonetos españoles a Bolívar'' (1983)
*''Donde el mundo no cesa de referir su historia'' (1983) -prosa-
*''Piedra y cielo de Roma'' (1984)
*''Carta a la madre'' (1988)
*''Mar viviente'' (1989)
*''El cuaderno roto'' (1989) -prosa-
See also
*
Café Gijón (Madrid)
References
External links
CronologíaPoemas en torno a la creación poética
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1914 births
2001 deaths
People from Oviedo
Spanish male poets
20th-century Spanish poets
20th-century Spanish male writers
Premio Cervantes winners