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Alexandre O'Neill
Alexandre O'Neill (1924–1986) was a Portuguese poet, born and died in Lisbon, who co-founded the Grupo Surrealista de Lisboa in 1947 and later wrote satirical poetry marked by wordplay and irony.
Ángel González
Ángel González (1925–2008) was a Spanish poet from Oviedo, a leading voice of the Generation of the 50 whose ironic, colloquial poetry won the Premio Príncipe de Asturias in 1985.
Antero de Quental
Antero de Quental (1842–1891) was a Portuguese poet and philosopher from Ponta Delgada, Azores, the leading figure of the Generation of 70 and a cofounder of Portugal's socialist movement.
António Correia de Oliveira
António Correia de Oliveira (1879–1960) was a Portuguese poet of the saudosismo movement and later official poet of the Estado Novo, first nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1933.
Antonio Machado
Antonio Machado (Antonio Machado y Ruiz) was a Spanish poet of the Generation of '98, born in Seville in 1875 and died in exile in France in 1939.
Blas de Otero
Blas de Otero (1916–1979) was a Spanish poet from Bilbao whose work moved from tormented existential verse to the socially committed poetry of the postwar generation.
Carles Riba
Carles Riba i Bracons (1893–1959) was a Catalan poet, translator, and classical scholar of Barcelona, whose exile cycle Elegies de Bierville is among the major works of modern Catalan poetry.
Carlos Barral
Carlos Barral (1928–1989) was a Spanish poet and publisher who led the Seix Barral house, launched the Latin American Boom, and later served as a senator and European MP.
Carmen Conde
Carmen Conde (Carmen Conde Abellán; 1907–1996) was a Spanish poet and novelist from Cartagena who in 1978 became the first woman elected to the Real Academia Española.
Cesário Verde
Cesário Verde (José Joaquim Cesário Verde) was a Portuguese poet who worked as a Lisbon merchant, published little in his lifetime, and is now regarded as a precursor of Portuguese Modernism.
Ercilla
Ercilla is a Chilean name referring to Alonso de Ercilla, the Spanish poet of La Araucana, and to the Santiago publishing house and magazine named after him.
Eugénio de Andrade
Eugénio de Andrade, pen name of José Fontinhas (1923–2005), was a Portuguese poet and translator, one of the most widely translated of the twentieth century.
Florbela Espanca
Florbela Espanca (1894–1930) was a Portuguese poet, born in Vila Viçosa, who made the sonnet the vehicle for confessional poems of love, sensuality, solitude, and death.
Francisco Brines
Francisco Brines (Francisco Brines Bañó, 1932–2021) was a Spanish poet of the Generation of '50, known for elegiac poetry on time and death, and winner of the 2020 Cervantes Prize.
Francisco de Quevedo
Francisco de Quevedo (1580–1645) was a Spanish writer of the Siglo de Oro, the leading representative of conceptismo, known for the picaresque novel El Buscón and the satires Los sueños.
Gabriel Celaya
Gabriel Celaya, pen name of Rafael Múgica Celaya, was a Spanish poet and engineer who led the social poetry of 1950s Spain, declaring that poetry is a weapon.
Gaspar Núñez de Arce
Gaspar Núñez de Arce (1832–1903) was a Spanish poet, playwright, journalist, and public official, acclaimed in his lifetime for Gritos del combate (1875) and the verse drama El haz de leña.
Gerardo Diego
Gerardo Diego (1896–1987) was a Spanish poet, critic, and teacher of the Generation of 27; his 1932 anthology defined the group, and he won the 1979 Cervantes Prize shared with Borges.
Jacint Verdaguer
Jacint Verdaguer (1845–1902) was a Catalan Romantic poet and priest, central figure of the Renaixença and founder of modern Catalan literature, known for the epics L'Atlàntida and Canigó.
Jaime Gil de Biedma
Jaime Gil de Biedma (Jaime Gil de Biedma y Alba, 1929–1990) was a Spanish poet and critic, a central figure of the Generation of the 50 in postwar Spanish poetry.
Joan Brossa
Joan Brossa (Joan Brossa i Cuervo, 1919–1998) was a Catalan poet, playwright, and visual poet from Barcelona and a founder of the avant-garde group Dau al Set.
Jorge Guillén
Jorge Guillén (1893–1984) was a Spanish poet of the Generation of '27, alongside Lorca and Salinas, whose collected work, gathered as Aire nuestro, is organized in five series.
José Ángel Valente
José Ángel Valente (1929–2000) was a Spanish poet, essayist, and translator of the Generation of the 50 who evolved from social poetry toward an introspective writing of silence and mysticism.
José de Espronceda
José de Espronceda (José de Espronceda y Delgado, 1808–1842) was a Spanish Romantic poet, playwright, and liberal politician, often called the Spanish Byron, best known for El estudiante de Salamanca and Canción del pirata.
José Hierro
José Hierro, full name José Hierro del Real, was a Spanish poet, art critic, and member of the Real Academia Española who won the 1998 Miguel de Cervantes Prize.
José María Pemán
José María Pemán (1897–1981) was a Spanish poet, playwright, and essayist from Cádiz, a leading official voice of the Franco regime and director of the Real Academia Española.
Josep Carner
Josep Carner (1884–1970) was a Catalan poet, journalist, translator, and diplomat called the "Prince of Catalan Poets," the central poetic figure of the Noucentisme movement.
Juan Meléndez Valdés
Juan Meléndez Valdés (1754–1817), who wrote under the pseudonym Batilo, was a Spanish poet and magistrate regarded as the leading Spanish lyric poet of the eighteenth century.
Juan Ramón Jiménez
Juan Ramón Jiménez was a Spanish poet who won the 1956 Nobel Prize in Literature and wrote Platero y yo, prose poems about a man and his donkey.
Juana de Ibarbourou
Juana de Ibarbourou, born Juana Fernández Morales and titled Juana de América in 1929, was an Uruguayan poet whose 1919 Las lenguas de diamante made her famous across Latin America.