Anniversaries, 26 April
Vicente Aleixandre
Vicente Pío Marcellino Cirilo Aleixandre y Merlo was born in Seville, but for fifty years, until his death, he famously lived in Madrid on Calle Velintonia 3. Aleixandre studied law and economics. He then worked for a major corporation until he was forced to resign in 1925 due to kidney failure. Confined to a life of stillness, he began to write and to form relationships with other poets of his generation.
The tercentenary of the death of the Baroque poet Góngora was celebrated in 1927 t...
Anniversaries, 26 April
Bernard Malamud
Bernard Malamud was an American author born in Brooklyn, New York, to a family of Russian Jewish immigrants. The family owned a grocery store where Malamud helped out as a teenager. He attended City College, New York, and Columbia University, graduating with a Master of Arts in 1942. While still at university he taught at evening school and began to write – two of his short stories were published in 1943. He taught at Oregon State College between 1949 and 1961 and then at Bennington College, V...
Anniversaries, 26 April
William Shakespeare
English playwright and poet, born in Stratford-upon-Avon as the eldest son of the glove maker John Shakespeare and his wife Mary Arden. His mother was from the local aristocracy. Through successful business, the father managed to create a considerable fortune. He became an estate owner, and for some time he held the highest political office of the city. Around 1578, however, the fortune began to dry up, his father got into debt and finally had to sell some of his property, which still did not...
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Davidsen, Leif
Leif Davidsen in a Danish author and journalist born in Otterup on northern Funen. He grew up there and in the neighbouring town of Bogerup. After leaving school in 1967, he spent a year as an exchange student in a high school in Middletown, New Jersey. Back in Denmark, he studied journalism, graduating in 1976. He began to write poetry during this period, and some of his poems were published in...
