Angel Gonzáles Muniis ( Spanish Ángel González Muñiz ; September 6, 1925 , Oviedo - January 12, 2008 , Madrid ) - Spanish poet of the “generation of the fifties” .
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Ángel González Muñiz | |
Date of Birth | September 6, 1925 |
Place of Birth | Oviedo |
Date of death | January 12, 2008 (82 years) |
Place of death | Madrid |
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Occupation | poet |
Awards and prizes | Prince of Asturias Prize ( 1985 ) |
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Biography
Angel González Muñiz was born on September 6, 1925 in Oviedo. Gonzalez's father died when he was a baby. The family suffered greatly from the Franco during the Civil War : one brother was shot, another expelled, her sister was not allowed to complete her education.
In 1943, Angel Gonzalez contracted tuberculosis, was ill for three years. During the illness he became interested in poetry: he read many poems and began to write his own. Decided to study law at the University of Oviedo.
In 1950 he moved to the city of Madrid to study at the school of journalism. In 1954 he passed state exams for the position of civil servant in the Ministry of Public Works; receives an appointment to the management of Seville. However, a year later, he takes a vacation at his own expense and travels to Barcelona . There he works as an editor at several publishing houses and makes friends with Barcelona writers and poets ( Carlos Barral , José Agustin Goytsolo , Jaime Gil de Biedma ).
In 1956, the first book of his poems was published, which clearly defines him as a man whose childhood was in the Civil War. This book has received the second (incentive) award Adonáis ( es:) . Gonzalez returns to Madrid and works again in the administration. He meets poets and writers of his generation: Gabriel Zelaya, Juan Garcia Ortellano , José Manuel Caballero Bonald and others.
After the release of his second book (1961), Angel Gonzalez was recognized as a poet of the “1950 generation” or “mid-century generation” (also called the “generation of children of war”). In 1965-1967 traveled a lot in Europe , participated in writers congresses. In 1970 he was invited to give lectures at the University of Albuquerque ( New Mexico , USA ). In 1972, he finally moved to the USA and in 1973 gave lectures at universities in Utah , Maryland and Texas . In 1974, he returned to Albuquerque for a permanent position as a teacher of modern Spanish literature, with whom he retired in 1993. After retirement, he continued to live in New Mexico, constantly coming to Spain.
In 1979 he came to Cuba to participate in the jury, which awards the Casa de las Américas literary prize.
In 2003, he came to Moscow at the invitation of the Cervantes Institute. [one]
Creativity
Gonzalez's poetry combines intimacy with a social theme. The course of time, love and citizenship - these are the three main themes that are constantly repeated in his poems, with a melancholy tone, although optimistic. His poetic language is clear, accessible, transparent, mild irony is characteristic of him. The poet talks about everyday affairs in colloquial urban language, without falling into either nationality or local history. Critics emphasize the inherent dignity and solidarity of his works, which do not restrict individual freedom, like other poets of his generation.
The author of 12 collections of poems (the last released posthumously), 7 poetic anthologies. Wrote an essay about Juan Ramón Jimenez (1973), the poetic generation of 1927 (1976), Gabriele Zelaya (1977) and Antonio Machado (1979).
Collaborated with the bard Pedro Avila in preparing the disc The Accomplished World ( Acariciado mundo ) - 12 verses by Gonzalez to the music of Avila (1987) and Pedro Guerra (book-disc The Word in the Air ( La palabra en el aire )), 2003; as well as with tenor Joaquin Pixan and other musicians for the album Voz que soledad sonando (2004).
Recognition
In 1962 he was awarded the Antonio Machado Prize. In 1985 - the Prince of Asturias Prize in Literature. Since 1997 - Member of the Spanish Royal Academy . In the same year he received the Queen Sophia Prize in Ibero-American Poetry . In 2001 he became the laureate of the Julian Besteiro Fine Arts and Literature Prize. In 2004, he received the Federico Garcia Lorca International Poetry Prize of the City of Granada.
In 2009, Luis Garcia Montero published a novel about the childhood and youth years of Angel González “Tomorrow will not be what God pleases” ( Mañana no será lo que Dios quiera ). [2] In the same year, Joaquin Sabina dedicated the song Menos dos alas (Excluding two wings) to the poet in the new Vinagre y rosas disc (Vinegar and Roses). [3] Both were close friends of the poet.
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- Poems in Russian (translation and introduction by N. Vanhanen )