Vicente Aleixandre
(1898-1984)

Died aged 86

Vicente Pío Marcelino Cirilo Aleixandre y Merlo (Spanish pronunciation: [biˈθente alejkˈsandɾe]; 26 April 1898 – 14 December 1984) was a Spanish poet who was born in Seville. Aleixandre received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1977 "for a creative poetic writing which illuminates man's condition in the cosmos and in present-day society, at the same time representing the great renewal of the traditions of Spanish poetry between the wars". He was part of the Generation of '27. Aleixandre's early poetry, which he wrote mostly in free verse, is highly surrealistic. It also praises the beauty of nature by using symbols that represent the earth and the sea. Many of Aleixandre's early poems are filled with sadness. They reflect his feeling that people have lost the passion and free spirit that he saw in nature. He was one of the greatest poets of Spanish literature alongside Cernuda and Lorca. The melancholia of his poetry was also the melancholy of failed or ephemeral love affairs. Aleixandre's bisexuality was well known to his circle of friends, but he never admitted it publicly. He had a long-term love relationship with the poet Carlos Bousoño. He died on 14 December 1984 in Madrid, aged 86.

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Commemorated on 2 plaques

En este lugar nacio, el dia 26 de Abril del ano 1898 Vicente Aleixandre, premio nobel de literatura 1977. La Ciudad dedica este homenaje al poeta que canto la grandeza del hombre en la armonia del universo. Sevilla 1978

English translation:

Calle San Gregorio, Seville, Spain where they was born (1898)

Aquí vivió el poeta Vicente Aleixandre, hijo adoptivo de Málaga, que consagró a la «ciudad del paraíso» el más encendido de sus libros. El Ayuntamiento malagueño le dedica esta lápida. MCMLX.

English translation: Here lived the poet Vicente Aleixandre, adopted son of Malaga, who dedicated to the "city of paradise" the most passionate of his books. The Malaga City Hall dedicates this tombstone to him. MCMLX.

Calle Córdoba, 6, Málaga, Spain where they Lived here