Spain

Jacint Verdaguer’s remarkable literary achievement lies not only in his masterful epics of Spain and Catalonia but also in his prolific shorter narrative and lyric poetry that engaged the popular imagination...

Known as Abu Harun Musa in Arabic, Moses ibn Ezra (c. 1060-1139) was a poet and philosopher. Born in Granada, he was educated in both Jewish and Arabic literature and theology. When Granada was captured by...

Known as Shelomoh ben Yehudah Ibn Gabirol in Hebrew and Abu Ayyub Sulaiman ibn Yahya Ibn Jubayrol in Arabic, Solomon Ibn Gabirol (c. 1022 to 1058-70) was a Hebrew poet and Neoplatonic philosopher who lived...

Antonio Machado ranks among Spain’s greatest 20th-century poets. He was born in 1875 in Palacio de las Duenas on his family’s country estate. When he was still a child, Machado moved with his family to Madrid...

Juan de Yepes y Álvarez was born in Spain and entered the Carmelite Order as a young man. After a meeting with St. Teresa of Avila, he joined her attempts at reforming the order and pledged himself to a more...

Poet and visual artist Juan Carlos Mestre was born in Villafranca del Bierzo, in León, Spain, under the dictatorship of Francisco Franco. He studied at the University of Barcelona. Mestre’s poems use dream...

A prolific Spanish poet, editor, and critic, Juan Ramón Jiménez won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1956. He was born in Moguer i Andalusia, an area that he depicted in Platero y Yo (Platero and I, 1914)...

Federico García Lorca was a prominent 20th-century Spanish poet, playwright, and theater director. He published numerous volumes of poetry during his lifetime, beginning with Impresiones y paisajes (approximately...

Poet Kirmen Uribe was born in Ondarroa, a fishing village in Spain’s Basque country. He received an undergraduate degree in Basque philology from the University of the Basque Country. His first collection ...

Miguel Hernández Gilabert was born to poor parents on October 30, 1910 in the town of Orihuela, near Murcia, in southeastern Spain. His father, Miguel Hernández Sánchez, a herdsman and dealer in sheep and ...