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Miguel Hernández

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Pencil portrait of Miguel Hernández by the playwright Antonio Buero Vallejo during the poet's emprisonment in Madrid © EFE

Speciality

Literature

Date of birth

Oct 30, 1910

Date of death

1942

"Poet and playwright. His poems reveal a deep sentiment of tragedy and speak of love, death, war and injustice, subjects which he experimented intensely.
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Born in Orihuela (Alicante) in 1910. In 1930 he published his first verses for magazines such as “El Pueblo de Orihuela” or “El día de Alicante” with the support of his friend Ramón Sijé. In Madrid, to which he moved to write for the Cossío dictionary of bullfighting, he is presented to authors of the Generation of ’27. Poems on bullfighting and of the war between love and death, as “El rayo que no cesa”, are from this period. During the civil war he was an activist with the Republicans and was imprisoned and condemned to death at the end of the conflict. Before dying, he published his last work, “Cancionero y romancero de ausencias”.

Essential works

The Unending Lightning

This collection of poems on the theme of love by the poet Miguel Hernández is one of his most accomplished and consistent works.
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