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Rafael Alberti
AuthorBooks · Second hand1902-1999
Spanish poet of the Generation of '27, author of Marinero en tierra, Concerning the Angels and the memoir La arboleda perdida.
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About Rafael Alberti
Birth
1902
Death
1999
First book
1924
Years writing
102
Spanish poet of the Generation of '27, author of Marinero en tierra, Concerning the Angels and the memoir La arboleda perdida.
He shared the Spanish National Prize for Literature in 1925 with Gerardo Diego for Marinero en tierra.
He was a member of the Communist Party of Spain and a deputy for Cádiz in the 1977 Cortes.
He went into exile in Argentina, where he lived from 1940 to 1963, then in Rome until his return to Spain in 1977.
He was also a painter; his 'liricogramas' combine calligraphy, colour and poetry.
He died in 1999 in El Puerto de Santa María at 96, the last surviving member of the Generation of '27.
