biography
| name: |
Valente, José Angel
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pronunciation:
[valentay]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1929–2000)
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| biography:
| Poet, born in Orense, NW Spain. His main preoccupations are exile, deprivation, death, and contemporary Spain. He worked for an international organization in Geneva, having studied modern languages in Madrid (1947–53) and lectured on Spanish studies at Oxford (1955–8). His books are A modo de esperanza (1955), which won the Adonais Prize of 1954, Poemas a Lázaro (1960), which won the Critics' Prize of 1961, Sobre el lugar del canto (1963), La memoria y los signos (1966), Siete representaciones (1967), Breve son (1968), the sarcastic Presentación y memorial para un monumento (1970), El inocente (Mexico City, 1970), and Punto cero (Barcelona, 1972). In 1999 appeared Obra poética. Valente has translated the works of Gerard Manley Hopkins and Kavafis. |
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