Juan Ramón Jiménez [Categories: Spanish-language poets, Nobel Prize in Literature winners, 1958 deaths, 1881 births]
Juan Ramón Jiménez (December 24, 1881 - May 29, 1958) was a (The Romance language spoken in most of Spain and the countries colonized by Spain) Spanish (A writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry)) poet . He was born in Moguer, near (Click link for more info and facts about Huelva) Huelva in the (A region in southern Spain on the Atlantic and the Mediterranean; formerly a center of Moorish civilization) Andalusia region of Southern (A parliamentary monarchy in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula; a former colonial power) Spain . He made the region famous with his prose poem about a writer and his donkey, called Platero y Yo (1914). He was a prolific poet and wrote several dozen books. He was an opponent of the regime of (Spanish general whose armies took control of Spain in 1939 and who ruled as a dictator until his death (1892-1975)) Francisco Franco and fled to (A self-governing commonwealth associated with the United States occupying the island of Puerto Rico) Puerto Rico in 1939. He received the | |
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