Home > Literature and the Arts > Literature in Other Modern Languages > Spanish and Portuguese Literature: Biographies

Research topic:Jorge Guillén

Find more facts and information on our topic page about Jorge Guillén

Jorge Guillén

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

Jorge Guillén , 1893-1984, Spanish poet. Guillén left Spain after the civil war (1939) and taught Spanish in the United States. His verse is difficult, terse, and lyrical. Cántico, his volume of poems, has appeared in four successively augmented editions (1928, 1936, 1945, 1950; tr. 1965). Among the most intellectual of modern Spanish poets, he has been compared to Paul Valéry, whose work he translated. Affirmation: 1919-1966 (1968) is a bilingual anthology of Guillén's work. In 1976 the Spanish government awarded him the Cervantes Prize, the highest literary honor of the Spanish-speaking world.


Find more facts and information related to the .
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Copyright 2008 Columbia University Press

Related newspaper, magazine, and trade journal articles from HighBeam Research

(Including press releases, facts, information, and biographies)

Gonzalo Rojas receives the Cervantes prize in Spain.(2004)(Brief Article)
; ...COMMUNICATIONS LTD Spain's Cervantes Prize for literature has been awarded...Chilean poet Gonzalo Rojas. The Cervantes Prize for Fiction, named after Spain...11 March 2004. The annual Cervantes prize has been awarded on the anniversary... Read more
Novelist gets Spain's Cervantes prize for 2002
; ...Juan Carlos presented novelist Jose Jimenez Lozano with the Cervantes prize for 2002, Spanish literature's most respected award. Author...Los Lobeznos" ("The Wolf Cubs"), published last year. The Cervantes prize, which includes a $91,500 cash grant, takes its name from... Read more
Argentine poet wins Cervantes Prize
; MADRID, Spain -- Argentine poet Juan Gelman has won the Cervantes Prize, the Spanish-speaking world's top literary award. The award...crackdown during Argentina's military dictatorship. The Cervantes prize is worth the equivalent of about US$133,000. It's presented... Read more
Spaniard wins Cervantes Prize
; ...The Spanish-speaking world's highest literary honor - the Cervantes Prize - was awarded to the Spanish writer Francisco Umbral. Umbral...also writes a daily column in the newspaper El Mundo. The Cervantes prize was founded 25 years ago by the Spanish Culture Ministry... Read more
Hobbits Rule:
; ...Colombian novelist and poet Alvaro Mutis with the Miguel de Cervantes prize for literature. Mutis, accompanied by his wife, children...up a stance for the dignity and freedom of mankind." The Cervantes prize, named after the author of Don Quixote and considered the... Read more
PEOPLE
; ...THE Spanish-speaking world's highest literary honor the Cervantes Prize has been awarded to the Spanish novelist, essayist and literary...also writes a daily column for the newspaper El Mundo. The Cervantes Prize, founded 25 years ago by the Ministry of Culture, includes... Read more
Celebrities
; ...aneurysm while he was hospitalized in Florida. Poet wins Cervantes prize Spanish poet Jose Garcia Nieto who revived classical styles...God, love and the Castille region received the Miguel de Cervantes prize gious literary award in the Spanish-speaking world. The... Read more
Write Angles
; ...Guatamalan novelist Augusto Monterroso won this year's Cervantes Prize, the most prestigious literary award in the Spanish-speaki...Equivalent to the Nobel Prize in stature, the Cervantes Prize is worth 15 million Spanish pesetas, or about... Read more
PLUS ENTERTAINMENT
; ...stations beginning in mid-December and continuing into early 1991. CERVANTES PRIZE: Argentine writer Adolfo Bioy Casares has been awarded the 15th Miguel de Cervantes Prize, considered the Nobel prize of literature in Spanish. "I am overwhelmed... Read more
Winner of the 2005 Cervantes Prize announced.(Sergio Pitol)(Brief Article)
; M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD The winner of the 2005 Cervantes Prize was announced on Thursday (1 December), with Mexican author Sergio Pitol taking the top award. The award, worth USD105,000, has... Read more

Online videos

Jorge Guillén:Viento saltado.El silbo vulnerado.

For Students and teachers!

HighBeam Encyclopedia provides students and teachers facts, information, and biographies from verified, citable sources, including:

HighBeam Encyclopedia provides students and teachers facts, information, and biographies from verified, citable sources, including: