Rafael Guillén facts for kids

Rafael Guillén (27 April 1933 – 4 May 2023) was a Spanish poet, a prominent member of the Generation of '50. Awarded Spain's National Poetry Award for Los estados transparentes in 1994, he was one of the most important authors of his generation. He had a long artistic career and among his merits is the fact of helping the recovery of Andalusian poetic culture after the devastation of the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939). The neoclassical influence that weighed on other members of his generation is noticeable in his early works. However, the attraction to popular themes and airs (Cancionero-guía para andar por el aire de Granada, 1962) soon took on an evolution that manifested itself, already in the 1960s, abandoning the rigidity of traditional metrics. With the publication of Moheda (1979), it surprises with its uninhibited and innovative style in syntax. .....

His prose work is divided between travel narratives, autobiography, essays, lectures and articles.

Guillén died from a stroke on 4 May 2023, at the age of 90.

Discography

• Los alrededores del tiempo (Granada, 2001). Anthology of poems written up to the year 2000.
• Balada en tres tiempos para contrabajo y frases cotidianas (Barcelona, 2021). Nine pieces for poems and double bass by Rafael Guillén & Xavier Astor. Based on the book of the same name by both autors published in 2013. Fundación Omnia, DLB 9248-2021.

See also

In Spanish: Rafael Guillén para niños