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Ángel González Muñiz

アンヘル・ゴンサレス・ムニス

Anheru Gonsaresu Munisu

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1925-09-06 (Oviedo)
Died
2008-01-12 (Madrid) age 82
Nationality
Spain
Languages
Spanish
Religion
Unknown
Residence History
Oviedo, Spain → Madrid, Spain → New Mexico, USA

Career

Occupations
poet, civil servant, university professor
Active Years
1956-2008
Affiliations
Real Academia Española
Memberships
Real Academia Española

Education

University of Oviedo
Faculty of Law
Degree: 法学士
Period: 1940年代-1950年
Year of Graduation: 1950
Country: Spain
Law degree

Awards

Príncipe de Asturias Prize
1985
Category: 文学
Organization: Príncipe de Asturias Foundation
Result: 受賞
Antonio Machado Prize for Poetry
1962
Work: Grado elemental
Result: 受賞
Premio Adonáis
1955
Work: Áspero mundo
Result: 準入選
Angel María de Lera Hispanism Prize
Organization: University of Colorado
Result: 受賞
Salerno Poetry Prize
Result: 受賞
Premio Reina Sofía Iberoamericas Prize
Result: 受賞
Federico García Lorca Poetry Prize
2004
Organization: City of Granada
Result: 受賞

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Áspero mundo

1956 poetry

A collection of poems depicting a harsh world, an immediate critical success.

harsh reality
Translations
  • Harsh World and Other Poems

Bibliography

  • Áspero mundo (1956)
  • Sin esperanza, con convencimiento (1961)
  • Grado elemental (1962)
  • Palabra sobre palabra (1965)
  • Tratado de urbanismo (1967)
  • Breves acotaciones para una biografía (1971)
  • Procedimientos narrativos (1972)
  • Prosemas o menos (1984)
  • A todo amor (1988)
  • Deixis en fantasma (1992)
  • Lecciones de cosas y otros poemas (1998)

Translations of Works

  • Harsh World and Other Poems (1977, tr. Donald Walsh)
  • Astonishing World: The Selected Poems of Ángel González (1993, tr. Steven Ford Brown)
  • Almost All the Music, and other poems (2007, tr. E. A. Mares)

Style & Themes

Literary Style
clear and everyday language
Recurring Motifs
harshness of reality

Legacy

A major Spanish poet of the twentieth century, contributing significantly to Hispanic literature.