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Miguel de Cervantes Prize みげる・で・せるばんてすしょう

Edition 3 (1978)

Spanish-language literatureLifetime achievementNational (Spain)

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Dámaso Alonso だまそ あろんそ Winner

Hijos de la ira is a poetry collection that gives voice to postwar Spain’s despair and rage, expressing inner suffering and social collapse in fierce, uncompromising language. It engages religious and existential questions and stands as a landmark of 20th-century Spanish poetry.

A poetry collection that burns the pain of postwar Spain into urgent language.

poetryexistencepostwar contextreligious questioning