Jose Garcia Nieto

José García Nieto (Oviedo, July 6, 1914 - Madrid, February 27, 2001) was a Spanish poet and writer, winner of the Cervantes Prize and a member, along with Gabriel Celaya, Blas of Otero and José Hierro, of the poetic generation of the Spanish postwar period.

Biography

José García Nieto was born in Oviedo on July 6, 1914, at number 8 Portugalete street —today Melquíades Álvarez number 6—. He is the son of José García Lueso and María de la Encarnación Nieto Fernández. His father, who had a law degree, dedicated himself to journalism. He loses his father at the age of nine and lives with his mother in cities like Zaragoza, Toledo and Madrid, where he studies high school and begins to write verses. At the beginning of the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), he held the position of secretary of the Chamartín de la Rosa City Council —which would later be absorbed by the Madrid City Council—, he was mobilized and at the end of the war he returned to the City Council. He began exact science studies, which he abandoned to dedicate himself to journalism in Madrid. He settled in Madrid in 1939 where he contacted the Café Gijón literary circle and in the spring of 1943 he founded the magazine Garcilaso , organ of the neo-Garcilaso and formalist poetic generation of the postwar period.

Since then he has devoted himself to literature, especially poetry, theater, including the adaptation of Spanish classics, and film scripts. He has been awarded numerous times, including the Adonáis Award in 1950 for Lady of Solitude, the Fastenrath Award from the Royal Spanish Academy for Geography is Love in 1955 and the National Prize for Literature on two occasions, 1951 and 1957. In 1980 he obtained the Mariano de Cavia Prize for journalism and a little later, on January 28, 1982, he was elected an academic of the Royal Spanish Academy, occupying the "i& #3. 4; left vacant by José María Pemán. Likewise, he obtained the González-Ruano Prize for journalism in 1987 and the Cervantes Prize in 1996 for all of his work.

He was director of the magazines Garcilaso, Poesía Española and its sequel, Poesía Hispánica. They published, among others, writers and poets such as Luis Rosales, Leopoldo Panero, María Victoria Atencia, Juan José Cuadros, Ramón de Garciasol, Manuel Álvarez Ortega, Juan Antonio Villacañas, Juan Van Halen, Concha Lagos, Carlos Murciano, Francisco Umbral, Angelina Gatell, Jorge Teillier, and José Miguel Ullán.

On the centenary of his birth, the National Library of Spain paid tribute to José García Nieto. The following participated in this tribute: Paloma García-Nieto, daughter of the poet, Víctor García de la Concha, José Manuel Blecua and the director of the National Library Ana Santos Aramburo.

His daughter, Paloma García-Nieto, president of the García Nieto Foundation, deposited an "in memoriam" legacy in the Caja de las Letras of the Cervantes Institute, with various objects: the first draft of the speech with which José García Nieto entered the Royal Spanish Academy (1982); the typewriter that the poet used, together with ten original numbers of the magazine "Garcilaso".

Work

• Vespera towards you (1940)
• Poetry (1944)
• Verses of a guest of Luisa Esteban (1944)
• You and me on earth (1944)
• Angel altarpiece, man and shepherd (1944)
• From the countryside and solitude (1946)
• Game of the twelve mirrors (1951)
• Truce (1951). National Poetry Prize
• The network (1955). Fastenrath Award
• Geography is love (1956). National Poetry Prize
• The small park (1959)
• Corpus Christi and six sonnets (1962)
• Circumstances of death (1963)
• The eleventh hour (1963)
• Memories and commitments (1966)
• Speaking alone (1967). Barcelona City Award
• Faculty of return (1970)
• Workshop of minor art and fifty sonnets (1973)
• Supplication for the peace of the world and other "collages" (1973). Boscan Prize
• Sonnets and revelations of Madrid (1974)
• The fine crystals (1978)
• The drag. (1980)
• New praise of the Spanish language (1983)
• Spanish sonnets to Bolivar (1983)
• Where the world does not cease to refer to its history (1983) -prose-
• Stone and Heaven of Rome (1984)
• Letter to the mother (1988)
• Living sea (1989)
• The broken notebook (1989) -prose-

Predecessor: Camilo José Cela

Miguel de Cervantes Award 1996

Successor: Guillermo Cabrera Infante