Vicente Aleixandre
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Contents
Country
Spain
Birth - Death
1898 - 1984
Occupation
Poet
Notable Achievements
Nobel Prize
Description
Although hesitant to identify as homosexual, he did not make a secret that his sexual orientation was homoerotic. Representative of Spanish surrealism, with his work lamenting man's lost passion for nature. Member of the 'Generation of 27'. Nobel Prize for Literature in 1977. Notable poetry collections include 'Passion of the Earth' and 'Destruction or Love'. Bisexual, though he never admitted it publicly.