Aleixandre

American

[ah-ley-ksahn-dre] / ˌɑ leɪˈksɑn drɛ /

noun

Vicente 1898–1984, Spanish poet: Nobel Prize 1977.

Aleixandre British

/ ɑleˈsɑndre /

noun

Vicente (Viˈθɛnte). 1898–1984, Spanish poet, whose collections include La destrucción o el amor (1935; Destruction or Love): Nobel prize for literature 1977

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When his fellow writers fled into exile at the end of the Spanish Civil War, Vicente Aleixandre was left behind, a chronic invalid with tuberculosis.

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But Aleixandre triumphed over both political oppression and physical adversity, and last week won the 1977 Nobel Prize for Literature.

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