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Rafael Alberti BIOGRAPHY
1902 Puerto de Santa María, Cádiz - 1998. Known for: Painting.
Rafael Alberti was a writer and poet belonging to the generation of '27, considered one of the greatest writers of what is known as the Silver Age of Spanish literature. He has received numerous... Read full biography
Rafael Alberti was a writer and poet belonging to the generation of '27, considered one of the greatest writers of what is known as the Silver Age of Spanish literature. He has received numerous awards and distinctions, including the National Prize for Poetry (1925), the Lenin de la Paz (1965), the... Read full biography
Rafael Alberti was a writer and poet belonging to the generation of '27, considered one of the greatest writers of what is known as the Silver Age of Spanish literature. He has received numerous awards and distinctions, including the National Prize for Poetry (1925), the Lenin de la Paz (1965), the National Prize for Theater (1980), the Cervantes Prize (1983) and the Roma Prize for Literature ( 1991). He renounced the other great Spanish literary prize, the Prince of Asturias, because of his... Read full biography
Rafael Alberti was a writer and poet belonging to the generation of '27, considered one of the greatest writers of what is known as the Silver Age of Spanish literature. He has received numerous awards and distinctions, including the National Prize for Poetry (1925), the Lenin de la Paz (1965), the National Prize for Theater (1980), the Cervantes Prize (1983) and the Roma Prize for Literature ( 1991). He renounced the other great Spanish literary prize, the Prince of Asturias, because of his strong republican convictions. Rafael Alberti's first vocation was painting, but his real discovery of this art took place in 1917, when he moved to Madrid with his family and visited the Prado Museum for the first time. He exhibited for the first time... Read full biography
Rafael Alberti was a writer and poet belonging to the generation of '27, considered one of the greatest writers of what is known as the Silver Age of Spanish literature. He has received numerous awards and distinctions, including the National Prize for Poetry (1925), the Lenin de la Paz (1965), the National Prize for Theater (1980), the Cervantes Prize (1983) and the Roma Prize for Literature ( 1991). He renounced the other great Spanish literary prize, the Prince of Asturias, because of his strong republican convictions. Rafael Alberti's first vocation was painting, but his real discovery of this art took place in 1917, when he moved to Madrid with his family and visited the Prado Museum for the first time. He exhibited for the first time in 1920 at the Salón de Otoño in Madrid, and two years later at the Athenaeum in the same city. His painting is characterized by the f... Read full biography
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Rafael Alberti was a writer and poet belonging to the generation of '27, considered one of the greatest writers of what is known as the Silver Age of Spanish literature. He has received numerous awards and distinctions, including the National Prize for Poetry (1925), the Lenin de la Paz (1965), the National Prize for Theater (1980), the Cervantes Prize (1983) and the Roma Prize for Literature ( 1991).
He renounced the other great Spanish literary prize, the Prince of Asturias, because of his strong republican convictions. Rafael Alberti's first vocation was painting, but his real discovery of this art took place in 1917, when he moved to Madrid with his family and visited the Prado Museum for the first time.
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