Félix Grande Lara (4 February 1937 in Mérida - 30 January 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de Poesía The Premio Adonáis, or Adonais Prize for Poetry, is awarded annually in Spain by Ediciones RIALP to an unpublished Spanish language poem.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 ...

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 Premio Nacional de las Letras Españolas in 2004. He was married to poet Francisca Aguirre, with whom he had a daughter, poet Guadalupe Grande.

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