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9 unusual facts about Spanish literature


1760 in poetry

March 10 – Leandro Fernández de Moratín, Spanish dramatist, translator and neoclassical poet (died 1828)

Alain-René Lesage

Shortly afterwards he found a valuable patron and adviser in the Abbé de Lyonne, who bestowed on him an annuity of 600 livres, and recommended him to exchange the classics for Spanish literature, of which he was himself a student and collector.

Alejandro Zambra

Zambra studied at the Instituto Nacional General José Miguel Carrera and the University of Chile, from where he graduated in 1997 with a degree in Hispanic literature.

Eduardo Lago

He returned to teaching Spanish, Spanish literature, and European Literature at Sarah Lawrence College in Yonkers in 2011, after leaving in 2005 for the position of Director of the Cervantes Institute in New York.

Fernán Caballero

Born at Morges in Switzerland, she was the daughter of Johann Nikolaus Böhl von Faber, a Hamburg merchant, who lived long in Spain, married a native of Cádiz, and is creditably known to students of Spanish literature as the editor of the Floresta de rimas antiguas castellanas (1821–1825), and the Teatro español anterior a Lope de Vega (1832).

Frances M. López-Morillas

Frances López-Morillas, née Frances Elinor Mapes (September 3, 1918 – ) is a leading translator of Spanish literature into English.

José Francisco de Isla

Isla's reputation and his position in the history of Spanish literature are linked particularly to his satire against the preachers of his time.

Robert J. McCormick

McCormick graduated from St. Johns University with a degree in Spanish Literature, Italian, and French.

Tim Weiland

Timo Weiland studied economics, Spanish literature, and business management at Vanderbilt University before moving to the fashion and design industry.


Gorka Aulestia Txakartegi

Later he migrated to the United States, where he received his M.A. in French and Spanish literature, and finally his Ph.D. in Basque Studies in 1987 at the University of Nevada, Reno, with the thesis El bertsolarismo: literatura oral improvisada en el País Vasco.

Luis García Montero

Luis García Montero (Granada, 4 December 1958) is a Spanish poet and literary critic, as well as a professor of Spanish Literature at the University of Granada.

Matilda Koen-Sarano

Matilda studied in the Jewish Community School of Milan, and also studied Languages at the Bocconi University in Milan and also Italian Literature and Judaeo-Spanish literature and Judaeo-Spanish folklore at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.


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Calixto Oyuela

He became a Professor of Spanish Literature at the National College of Buenos Aires.

Cuahutemoc Morfin

Settling in Chicago’s Pilsen neighborhood, he attended Benito Juarez Community Academy and graduated from Northern Illinois University in 1996 with a degree in Political Science and minor in Spanish Literature.

Decima

Décima, a type of poetic form with roots in Spanish literature

Denis Florence MacCarthy

His success is sufficiently testified by George Ticknor, who declared in his History of Spanish Literature that MacCarthy "has succeeded in giving a faithful idea of what is grandest and most effective in Calderon's genius... to a degree which I had previously thought impossible. Nothing, I think, in the English language will give us so true an impression of what is most characteristic of the Spanish drama, and of Spanish poetry generally."

Germán Arciniegas

He collaborated with many well-known figures at all three periodicals, including Luis López de Mesa, José Vasconcelos, León de Greiff and José Juan Tablada, who introduced the haiku into Spanish literature via Universidad.

James Fitzmaurice

James Fitzmaurice-Kelly (1858–1923), English writer on Spanish literature

José Manuel Caballero

He worked as a Contemporary Spanish Literature Professor at the Centre for Hispanic Studies at Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania from 1974 to 1978.

Laurent Lamothe

Son of Louis G. Lamothe, a doctor in Spanish literature and the founder of the Lope de Vega Institute, and of Ghislaine Fortuney Lamothe, a painter, Lamothe was born in Port-au-Prince.

Pedro J. Ramírez

Upon finishing his degree, he worked as a lecturer in Contemporary Spanish Literature at Lebanon Valley College in Pennsylvania, living in the United States during the decisive year of the Watergate case.

Severn Teackle Wallis

He became a proficient in Spanish literature and history and was elected a corresponding member of the Royal Academy of history of Madrid in 1843.

Thomas Mermall

He went on to become a full professor of Spanish Literature at Brooklyn College and formed part of the doctoral program of the City University of New York.

Veritas Christian Academy

core subjects: Language (Latin, Greek, Spanish), Literature and Composition, History, Math, Science, Theology/Logic and Advanced Studies (Argumentation, Rhetoric and Philosophy)

Vicente Aleixandre

Poesin blev min räddning (1977), documentary directed by Humberto López y Guerra about the Spanish Literature Nobel Prize Winner Vicente Aleixandre produced for Swedish Television TV1-Kultur

William Lee Brent

He earned a Spanish literature degree from the University of Havana and taught English at various junior and senior high schools.