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Vicente Aleixandre

1898 - 1984

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Vicente Pío Marcelino Cirilo Aleixandre y Merlo (Spanish pronunciation: [biˈθente alejɣˈsandɾe]; 26 April 1898 – 14 December 1984) was a Spanish poet who was born in Seville. Aleixandre received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 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 between the wars". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vicente Aleixandre has received more than 163,065 page views. His biography is available in 74 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 73 in 2019). Vicente Aleixandre is the 879th most popular writer (up from 944th in 2019), the 271st most popular biography from Spain (up from 272nd in 2019) and the 27th most popular Spanish Writer.

Vicente Aleixandre is most famous for his poem "Poema de los Dioses" which he published in 1959.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Vicente Aleixandre ranks 879 out of 5,755. Before him are Ali Shariati, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Carlos Ruiz Zafón, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Gaius Lucilius, and Basava. After him are Hans Sachs, Eugène Scribe, Thomas Malory, Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, Clifford D. Simak, and Philostratus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1898, Vicente Aleixandre ranks 47. Before him are Joseph Murphy, Ahmad Shah Qajar, Konrad Henlein, Peggy Guggenheim, Therese Neumann, and Joris Ivens. After him are Héctor Scarone, Totò, Josef Terboven, Latife Uşşaki, Hanns Eisler, and Stefania Turkewich. Among people deceased in 1984, Vicente Aleixandre ranks 31. Before him are Sam Peckinpah, Philippe Ariès, Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet, Viktor Shklovsky, Martin Ryle, and Ahmed Sékou Touré. After him are Stanislaw Ulam, Karl Rahner, Jackie Coogan, Irwin Shaw, Moshé Feldenkrais, and Henri Michaux.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Vicente Aleixandre ranks 271 out of 2,932. Before him are Eleanor of Toledo (1522), Francis, Duke of Cádiz (1822), Carlos Ruiz Zafón (1964), Ferdinand IV of Castile (1285), Infante Jaime, Duke of Segovia (1908), and Ramiro I of Aragon (1008). After him are Rafael Nadal (1986), Raymond of Penyafort (1175), Abraham Abulafia (1240), Mariano Rajoy (1955), La Belle Otero (1868), and Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca (1488).

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Among WRITERS In Spain

Among writers born in Spain, Vicente Aleixandre ranks 27. Before him are Jacinto Benavente (1866), Antonio Machado (1875), Joseph of Anchieta (1534), Matilde Camus (1919), Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer (1836), and Carlos Ruiz Zafón (1964). After him are Abraham Abulafia (1240), Benito Pérez Galdós (1843), Juan Antonio Villacañas (1922), Garcilaso de la Vega (1501), Prudentius (348), and Jorge Semprún (1923).

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