Rafael Guillén

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The poet Rafael Guillén on the front and back of his oeuvre Obras Completas

Rafael Guillén (born April 27, 1933 in Granada ) is a Spanish poet of the generation of 1950, winner of the Spanish literary prize Premio Nacional de Literatura from 1994 and one of the most important writers of his generation. Within his many years of artistic work, his outstanding role should be emphasized, through which the lyrical tradition in Andalusia regained importance after the devastating consequences of the Spanish Civil War. His work Moheda (1979) surprises with its innovative and informal style in the syntax . Its themes are not shallow: love and eroticism are mixed up with the lament of the inevitable denigration of time. His prose includes travel stories, autobiographies, essays, lectures, and articles.

biography

Rafael Guillén was one of the poets who with the group “Versos al aire” and the book collection “Veleta al sur” (1957–1966) revived the lyrical and literary events of the post-war period in Granada. In 1994 he was awarded the Spanish National Prize for Literature for Los estados transparentes . In the same year he reached the final round for the Premio-Nacional-de-la-Crítica-Preis and together with other writers from Granada he laid the foundation stone for the Acadamia de las Buenas Letras de Granada, which was finally run in 2001 by the Junta de Andalucia Founded. In 2003 he was awarded the Premio de la Critica Andaluza. Prior to that, he had received important prizes of his time such as the Leopoldo Panero Prize in 1966, the Guipúzcoa Prize in 1968, the Boscán Prize in 1968 and the City of Barcelona Prize. He is also in possession of the Medal of Honor of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Granada. A significant moment in his literary work was the publication of his three-volume oeuvre Obras completas by Almed-Verlag.

In 2014 Rafael Guillén donated his private library and archive to the Biblioteca de Andalucía, which is based in Granada and belongs to the regional administration Junta de Andalucía. In the same year he received the 11th edition of the Poetry Prize Premio Internacional de Poesía Federico García Lorca. Many of his poems and articles have been translated into several languages.

Books of poetry (selection)

  • Antes de la esperanza , La Nube y el Ciprés (Granada, 1956).
  • Río de Dios , Veleta al Sur (Granada, 1957).
  • Pronuncio amor , Alcaraván (Arcos de la Frontera, 1960).
  • Elegía , Veleta al Sur (Granada, 1961).
  • Cancionero-guía para andar por el aire de Granada , Veleta al Sur (Granada, 1962).
  • El gesto , Seijas y Goyanarte (Buenos Aires, 1964).
  • Tercer gesto , Cultura Hispánica (Madrid, 1967). Leopoldo Pandero Prize, 1966.
  • Amor, acaso nada , Cabildo Insular de Gran Canaria, (Las Palmas, 1968).
  • Los vientos , Revista de Occidente, (Madrid, 1970). Ciudad de Barcelona Prize, 1969.
  • Límites , El Bardo (Barcelona, ​​1971).
  • Gesto segundo , Instituto de Estudios Hispánicos, (Barcelona 1972). Boscán Prize, 1968; Guipúzcoa Prize, 1968.
  • Moheda , Litoral, nos. 85-86-87 (Málaga, 1979).
  • Vasto poema de la resistencia , Diputación Provincial, (Granada, 1981).
  • Mis amados odres viejos , Rialp-Adonais, (Madrid, 1987).
  • Los estados transparentes , Los Libros de la Frontera-El Bardo (Barcelona, ​​1993). Spanish Literature Prize, 1994. ISBN 84-85709-94-2
  • Variaciones temporales , Dauro (Granada, 2001).
  • I'm Speaking , Northwestern University Press, (Evanston, USA, 2001). Bilingual anthology with English translation by Sandy McKinney. ISBN 0-8101-1851-3
  • Las edades del frío , Tusquets (Barcelona, ​​2002). Premio de la Crítica Andaluza Prize, 2003. ISBN 84-8310-840-2
  • Los dominios del cóndor , EDA Libros (Benalmádena, 2007).
  • Obras completas , Almed, 3 volumes (Granada, 2010). ISBN 978-84-937644-2-5
  • Versos para los momentos perdidos , Fundación José Manuel Lara (Seville, 2011). ISBN 978-84-96824-73-7
  • Balada en tres tiempos (para contrabajo y frases cotidianas) , with scores by Xavier Astor. Diputación Provincial, Granada 2013, ISBN 978-84-7807-140-1 .
  • El otro lado de la niebla , Editorial Salto de Página (Madrid, 2013). ISBN 978-84-15065-51-7
  • El centro del silencio . Selección de poemas (1956-2013). Entorno Gráfico Ediciones (Granada, 2014). ISBN 978-84-941986-5-6
  • Balada en tres tiempos (para saxofón y frases coloquiales) , Visor Libros (Madrid, 2014). ISBN 978-84-9895-892-8
  • La Alhambra. Suite del silencio y los sentidos , with photographs by Ángel Sánchez. English version by Lawrence Bohme. Miguel Sánchez Publishing House (Granada 2016). ISBN 978-84-7169-160-6
  • Últimos poemas (Lo que nunca sabré decirte) , Fundación José Manuel Lara (Seville, 2019). ISBN 978-84-17453-33-6

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Pilar Gómez Bedate: Historia de la Literatura Española. Volume 2. Cátedra, Madrid 1990.
  2. ↑ Elena Barroso: Poesía Andaluza de hoy (1950–1990). Biblioteca de Cultura Andaluza, Seville 1991.
  3. ↑ Angel L. Prieto de Paula: Poetas españoles de los cincuenta. Ediciones Colegio de España, Salamanca 1995.
  4. ↑ José Ortega Torres: La poesía de Rafael Guillén: lengua, temas y estilo. Universidad de Granada, Granada 1994.
  5. ↑ Gonzalo Cappa: Rafael Guillén dona su legado literario a la Biblioteca de Andalucía . In: Diario de Sevilla , Seville (Spain), April 3, 2014.
  6. ↑ Ramón Ramos: Rafael Guillén, Premio Internacional de Poesía Federico García Lorca . In: El Mundo , October 10, 2014.
  7. ↑ Bibliography in the book Obras completas. Almed, 3 volumes. Almed, Granada 2010, ISBN 978-84-937644-2-5 .
personal data
SURNAME Guillén, Rafael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish poet
DATE OF BIRTH April 27, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Granada