Aleixandre

[ ah-ley-ksahn-dre ]

noun

1. Vi·cen·te [bee-, then, -te], 1898–1984, Spanish poet: Nobel Prize 1977.

Aleixandre

/ ɑleˈsɑndre /

noun

1. AleixandreVicente18981984MSpanishWRITING: poet Vicente (Viˈθɛnte). 1898–1984, Spanish poet, whose collections include La destrucción o el amor (1935; Destruction or Love): Nobel prize for literature 1977

Example Sentences

The book ushers in a parade of cameos by such literary greats as Pablo Neruda, Luis Cernuda, Vicente Aleixandre, Roberto Bolaño and even Javier Marías, who was a friend of the youngest of the Panero sons and whose father had been briefly imprisoned for opposing Franco.

From Los Angeles Times

In May, the chef Raúl Aleixandre closed his 30-year-old Ca’ Sento, a Michelin-starred restaurant, laying the blame on the nation’s economic difficulties.

From New York Times

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.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Citing the "strength to survive" that dominated much of his verse, the Nobel committee praised Aleixandre, now 79, for work that, rooted in the tradition of Spanish lyric poetry and modern currents, "illuminates man's condition in the cosmos and in present-day society."

From Time Magazine Archive