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Jimenez Juan 1881 - 1958 (77)

Blessed is the famous flaw that saves us from the abominable perfection


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Juan Ramón Jiménez (1881 -1958) was a Spanish poet, one of the most important of the 20th century. He was born on December 24, 1881 in Moger, a small town in Andalusia. He was a timid and sensitive child who found refuge in poetry from an early age.

At the ags of 19, h epublished two collections with his poems, they were warmly received by the poetry circles

In 1913 he met and fell in love with Zenobia Cambrubi, he had to cross the Atlantic in order to marry her, in 1916. The Journey and the Wedding became an important pioneering book with prose and poetry, titled: "The Diary of a Recently Married Poet".

He continued to write and publish poetry, gaining public recognition in his country, in 1936, with the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, he exiled himself to the United States and Puerto Rico.

In 1949 he published a collection of 29 poems under the title "Animal of Depth", which is a milestone in 20th century Spanish poetry; in 1956 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. He did not rejoice nor did he go to Stockholm to receive it as his wife died a few days after the award was announced.

Two years later, he died in Puerto Rico.