Félix de Azúa Comella (Barcelona, 30 April 1944) is a
Spanish professor of aesthetics and philosophy, poet, novelist, essayist and translator, member of
Real Academia Española
The Royal Spanish Academy (, ; ) is Spain's official royal institution with a mission to ensure the stability of the Spanish language. It is based in Madrid, Spain, and is affiliated with national language academies in 22 other Hispanopho ...
.
He taught
Spanish literature at the
University of Oxford
The University of Oxford is a collegiate university, collegiate research university in Oxford, England. There is evidence of teaching as early as 1096, making it the oldest university in the English-speaking world and the List of oldest un ...
from 1979 to 1981.
He was director of the
Institut Cervantes in Paris. With
Eduardo Mendoza Garriga,
Manuel Vázquez Montalbán,
José Ángel Valente,
Antonio Gamoneda,
Pere Gimferrer,
Julián Ríos and others, he is part of the generation of writers who revived democratic Spain.
He was elected to Seat ''H'' of the
Real Academia Española
The Royal Spanish Academy (, ; ) is Spain's official royal institution with a mission to ensure the stability of the Spanish language. It is based in Madrid, Spain, and is affiliated with national language academies in 22 other Hispanopho ...
on 18 June 2015; he took up his seat on 13 March 2016.
Notes
References
External links
Félix de Azúa's blog on ''El Boomeran(g).'' (literary blog)
Articles by Félix de Azúa on ''Elpais.com''* by Agrupación de Jóvenes de Ciudadanos (C's). Barcelona, 6 Feb 2008
5 min.br>
Entrevista a Félix de Azúaby Emili Manzano in ''L'hora del lector''. Barcelona: TV3, 21 May 2010
h. 1 min.br>
Entrevista a Félix de Azúaby Ignacio Vidal-Folch in ''Nostromo''. Madrid: RTVE, 28 Oct 2010
9 min.br>
Poems by Félix de AzúaFicha de Félix de Azúa ComellaFicha de Félix de Azúa Comella en ''Dialnet''
Living people
1944 births
Members of the Royal Spanish Academy
Spanish poets
Spanish male poets
Academic staff of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia
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