José Ángel Valente DocasarDecreto 53' 1990, de 19 de febrero por el que se concede la Medalla de Andalucía a don José Ángel Valente Docasar
/ref> (25 April 1929,

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, Galicia, Spain — 18 July 2000,

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, Switzerland) was a Spanish poet of the

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, an essayist, and a translator, who wrote in Spanish and Galician. He studied at the Faculty of Law at the

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, at the Faculty of Romance Philology at the University Complutense, taught Spanish philology at

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. From 1958 he lived in Switzerland, after 1980 he divided his time between Spain, Switzerland and France. In 1972, he was accused by the Franco government of insulting the honor of the Spanish army. One of the greatest Spanish poets of the second half of the 20th century. Prize winner of the

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Foundation (1984),

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(1988),

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(1998).Maduración, teoría, y la 'nueva poesía': El nombrar como praxis del conocimiento en José Ángel Valente
/ref> The Department of Poetics and Aesthetics at the University of Santiago de Compostela is named after Jose Angel Valente.

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1929 births 2000 deaths People from Ourense Spanish male poets 20th-century Spanish poets Galician poets Galician translators Spanish essayists Complutense University of Madrid alumni Academics of the University of Oxford English–Spanish translators 20th-century Spanish translators {{Spain-poet-stub