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Apr 25, 1929 Orense, Galicia, Spain Died on 18 Jul 2000 (aged 71)
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About José Ángel Valente
- José Ángel Valente Docasar (April 25, 1929, Ourense, Galicia, Spain — July 18, 2000, Geneva, Switzerland) was a Spanish poet of the Generation of '50, essayist, translator, who wrote in Spanish and Galician.He studied at the Faculty of Law at the University of Santiago de Compostela, at the Faculty of Romance Philology at the University Complutense, taught Spanish philology at Oxford.
- From 1958 he lived in Switzerland, after 1980 he divided his time between Spain, Switzerland and France.
- In 1972, in 1972, he was accused by the Franco government of insulting the honor of the Spanish army. One of the largest Spanish poets of the second half of the 20th-century.
- Prize winner of the Pablo Iglesias Posse Foundation (1984), Princess of Asturias Awards (1988), Queen Sofia (1998).
- The Department of Poetics and Aesthetics at the University of Santiago de Compostela is named after Jose Angel Valente.
