Jorge Guillén
Jorge Guillén | |
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Sculpture of Jorge Guillén in los Jardines del Poniente de Valladolid | |
| Born | Jorge Guillén Álvarez 18 January 1893 Valladolid, Spain |
| Died | 6 February 1984 (aged 91) Málaga, Spain |
| Spouses | Germaine Cahen
(m. 1924; died 1947)Irene Mochi-Sismondi
(m. 1958) |
| Children | Claudio Guillén, Teresa Gilman née Guillén |
| Awards | Premio Cervantes, Premio Internacional Alfonso Reyes, Hijo Predilecto de Andalucía, Ollin Yoliztli Prize |
Jorge Guillén Álvarez (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈxoɾxe ɣiˈʎen]; 18 January 1893 – 6 February 1984) was a Spanish poet, a member of the Generation of '27, a university teacher, a scholar and a literary critic.
In 1957-1958, he delivered the Charles Eliot Norton lectures at Harvard University, which were published in 1961 under the title Language and Poetry: Some Poets of Spain. The final lecture was a tribute to his colleagues in the Generation of '27. In 1983, he was named Hijo Predilecto de Andalucía. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature four times.