biography
| name: |
Jiménez, Juan Ramón
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pronunciation:
[himayneth]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1881–1958)
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| biography:
| Lyric poet, born in Moguer, SW Spain. He made his birthplace famous by his delightful story of the young poet and his donkey, Platero y yo (1914, Platero and I), one of the classics of modern Spanish literature. He abandoned law studies and settled in Madrid, where he began to write poetry, such as Sonetos espirituales (1916, Spiritual Sonnets). In 1936 he left Spain because of the Civil War, and settled in Florida. In his last period he emerged as a major poet, and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1956. |
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