José-Miguel Ullán

José-Miguel Ullán (born October 30, 1944 in Villarino de los Aires , Salamanca province , † May 23, 2009 in Madrid ) was a Spanish poet , art historian and journalist .

Life

Ullán settled in Madrid in 1959, where he later studied political science , social science and philosophy . During this time he also began to write his first radical, uncompromising poems, which can be assigned to both the avant-garde and pop culture , in the mid-1960s , and in 1965 he published his first volume of poetry, El jornal . During the Franco dictatorship of Francisco Franco , he went in 1966 into exile to France , where he served as director of the Castilian shipments of to de Office Radio Diffusion Télévision Française belonging (ORTF) cultural channel France Culture was responsible. In addition, between 1968 and 2007 he was the literary critic magazine Ondulaciones. Poesía reunida and published several other volumes of poetry in the 1970s, in which he also worked with artists such as Joan Miró , Antoni Tapies , Eduardo Chillida and Antonio Saura . On the other hand, he also wrote articles for works by Jacques Dupin .

After the death of Franco returned Ullan 1976 returned to Spain and was staff of the publishing house Ediciones Rayuela . He also worked as a journalist for various daily newspapers such as El País , but also for the public broadcaster Radiotelevisión Española . He was also deputy editor-in-chief of the daily Diario 16 , where he was responsible for the cultural supplement Culturas . Between 1977 and 1978 he also published several art critical books on painters such as Francisco Peinado, Enrique Brinkmann Parareda and Fernando Zóbel . In the 1990s he published Visto y no visto (1994), Razón de nadie (1994) and Ardicia (1995), which he presented at the Madrid cultural center Residencia de Estudiantes . He was also the editor of the collection of poems published by Ediciones Cátedra.

Ullán died a few hours after the funeral of his friend, the literary critic Rafael Conte , of complications from cancer .

Publications

• El jornal , 1965
• Cupid peninsular , 1965
• Humano poder , 1966
• Maniluvios , 1972
• Frases , 1975
• Las soledades de Francisco Peinado, 1977
• Abecedario de Brinkmann , 1977
• Acuarelas. Zóbel , 1978
• Soldadesca , 1979
• Manchas nombradas , 1984
• Almario , 1985
• Ardicia , 1994
• Visto y no visto , 1994
• Razón de nadie , 1994
• Tápies, ostinato , 2000
• Ni mu , 2003
• Con todas las letras , 2003
• Amo de llaves , 2004

Web links

• Biography in Biografías y Vidas
• The poeta y periodista salmantino José-Miguel Ullán. For adscrito a la generación de los 70 y dirigió la prestigiosa colección poética de Cátedra . In: Diario de Sevilla of May 25, 2009