Awards & Winners

Rafael Alberti

Date of Birth 16-December-1902
Place of Birth El Puerto de Santa María
(Spain, Cádiz)
Nationality Spain
Also know as Rafael Alberti Merello
Profession Poet, Playwright
Rafael Alberti Merello was a Spanish poet, a member of the Generation of '27. He is considered one of the greatest literary figures of the so-called Silver Age of Spanish Literature, and he won numerous prizes and awards. He died aged 96. After the Spanish Civil War, he went into exile because of his Marxist beliefs. On his return to Spain after the death of Franco, he was named Hijo Predilecto de Andalucía in 1983 and Doctor Honoris Causa by the Universidad de Cádiz in 1985. He published his memoirs under the title of La Arboleda perdida in 1959 and this remains the best source of information on his early life.

Awards by Rafael Alberti

Check all the awards nominated and won by Rafael Alberti.

1996


Nominations 1996 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Neustadt International Prize for Literature