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Manuel Álvarez Ortega
Manuel Álvarez Ortega (Córdoba, 4 March 1923 – Madrid, 14 June 2014) was a Spanish poet, translator, writer, and veterinarian. He was the director and founder of the journal ''Aglae'', which circulated between 1949 and 1954. He wrote many of his works in Madrid, the city where he lived starting in 1951. Biography Álvarez Ortega was born on 4 March 1923, at number 4, Calle Santa Victoria in Córdoba. He was the fifth child of Mariano Álvarez Berard and Paula Ortega Soria. He was baptized on 6 April 1923 in the Church of El Salvador y Santo Domingo de Silos. He began his studies in 1935 at the provincial Institute. Álvarez Ortega completed his diploma in 1942 and then studied at the Veterinary School (Facultad de Veterinaria) in Córdoba, which at that time belonged to the University of Seville (Universidad de Sevilla). Starting in 1951, he worked as a veterinarian, after taking the public exam for the position, at the Military Academy of Health (Academia de Sanidad Milit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Córdoba, Spain
Córdoba ( ; ), or sometimes Cordova ( ), is a city in Andalusia, Spain, and the capital of the Province of Córdoba (Spain), province of Córdoba. It is the third most populated Municipalities in Spain, municipality in Andalusia. The city primarily lies on the right bank of the Guadalquivir in the south of the Iberian Peninsula. Once a Colonia (Roman), Roman colonia, it was taken over by the Visigothic Kingdom followed by the Muslim conquest of the Iberian Peninsula, Muslim conquest in the eighth century. Córdoba became the capital of the Umayyad state of Córdoba, Emirate and then Caliphate of Córdoba, from which the Umayyad dynasty ruled all of al-Andalus until 1031. Under Umayyad rule, Córdoba was transformed into a centre of education and learning, and by the 10th century it had grown to be the second-largest city in Europe. The caliphate experienced a manifold political crisis in the early 11th century that brought about state collapse. Following the Siege of Córdoba ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raymond Queneau
Raymond Auguste Queneau (; ; 21 February 1903 – 25 October 1976) was a French novelist, poet, critic, editor and co-founder and president of Oulipo (), notable for his wit and cynical humour. Biography Queneau, the only child of Auguste Queneau and Joséphine Mignot, was born at 47, rue Thiers (now Avenue René-Coty), Le Havre, Seine-Inférieure. He received his middle name Auguste as a patronymic. After studying in Le Havre, Queneau moved to Paris in 1920 and received his first baccalauréat in 1925 for philosophy from the University of Paris. Queneau performed military service as a '' zouave'' in Algeria and Morocco during the years 1925–26. From the 1920s through 1930s, Queneau took odd jobs for income, working as a bank teller, tutor, translator and hackwriting in a column entitled, ('Do you know Paris?') for the daily newspaper '' L'Intransigeant''. He married Janine Kahn (1903–1972) in 1928 after returning to Paris from his first military service. Kahn was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juan Van-Halen Acedo
Juan Van-Halen Acedo (born 1944) is a Spanish poet, journalist, historian and politician member of the People's Party (PP). His political activity is notable in the scope of the Community of Madrid The Community of Madrid (; ) is one of the seventeen autonomous communities and 50 provinces of Spain, provinces of Spain. It is located at the heart of the Iberian Peninsula and Meseta Central, Central Plateau (); its capital and largest munici ..., where he chaired the presidency of the regional parliament between 1995 and 1999. Biography Born on 17 June 1944 in Torrelodones. A poet coming from the intellectual falangism, falangist ranks of the Sindicato Español Universitario (SEU), he served as chief of the Cultural Activities Section of the Frente de Juventudes, National Delegation for Youth between 1968 and 1970. He started a career in journalism in ''Ya (newspaper), Ya''. He later collaborated in ''Arriba (newspaper), Arriba'' and ''El Alcázar''. He worked as correspond ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
