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The Nobel Prize in Literature 1977

"for a creative poetic writing which illuminates man's condition in the cosmos and in present-day society, at the same time representing the great renewal of the traditions of Spanish poetry beween the wars"
Vicente Aleixandre
Vicente Aleixandre
Spain
b. 1898
d. 1984
 
 
 
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