WRITER

Luis Cernuda

1902 - 1963

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Luis Cernuda Bidón (September 21, 1902 – November 5, 1963) was a Spanish poet, a member of the Generation of '27. During the Spanish Civil War, in early 1938, he went to the UK to deliver some lectures and this became the start of an exile that lasted till the end of his life. He taught in the universities of Glasgow and Cambridge before moving in 1947 to the US. In the 1950s he moved to Mexico. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Luis Cernuda has received more than 138,463 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Luis Cernuda is the 2,812th most popular writer (down from 2,749th in 2019), the 938th most popular biography from Spain (down from 905th in 2019) and the 97th most popular Spanish Writer.

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  • 30

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  • 2.65

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  • 4.15

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

La realidad y el deseo
1940
Poems
1970
Poesía y literatura
English poetry
1960
La realidad y el deseo, 1924-1962
1964
Ocnos
1949
Perfil del aire
1971

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Luis Cernuda ranks 2,812 out of 7,302. Before him are Marija Jurić Zagorka, Louis of Granada, Unica Zürn, Gunnar Staalesen, George Herbert, and Branko Radičević. After him are Theodore Balsamon, Abraham Sutzkever, John Webster, Aleksandër Stavre Drenova, Aleksandar Tišma, and Panteleimon Kulish.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1902, Luis Cernuda ranks 140. Before him are Józef Maria Bocheński, Panteleimon Ponomarenko, John Houseman, Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Riccardo Morandi, and Bobby Jones. After him are Princess Françoise of Orléans, Anthony Asquith, Nikolay Kamov, K. Shivaram Karanth, Gustav Fröhlich, and Khuang Aphaiwong. Among people deceased in 1963, Luis Cernuda ranks 86. Before him are Alfred Wünnenberg, Sophus Nielsen, Adolphe Menjou, Marie Marvingt, Bernard Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg, and Pascual Ortiz Rubio. After him are Elmore James, Ramón Gómez de la Serna, Hubert Pierlot, Ivan Bek, Otto Struve, and Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Luis Cernuda ranks 938 out of 3,355. Before him are Miguel Cabanellas (1872), Juvencus (400), Lubna of Córdoba (922), Julio Salinas (1962), Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés (1478), and Louis of Granada (1504). After him are Juan Marsé (1933), Ermengol I, Count of Urgell (1000), Infante Antonio, Duke of Galliera (1866), Jaume Huguet (1412), Guillén de Castro y Bellvis (1569), and Bera, Count of Barcelona (770).

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Among WRITERS In Spain

Among writers born in Spain, Luis Cernuda ranks 97. Before him are Juan del Encina (1468), Abraham ibn Daud (1110), Àngel Guimerà (1845), Moses ibn Ezra (1060), Juvencus (400), and Louis of Granada (1504). After him are Juan Marsé (1933), Guillén de Castro y Bellvis (1569), Ramón Gómez de la Serna (1888), Bernardo Atxaga (1951), Francisco Ayala (1906), and Jorge Guillén (1893).

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