Jiménez, Juan Ramón
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| Birthname | Juan Ramón Jiménez Mantecón | ||||
| born on | 24 December 1881 at 23:59 (= 11:59 PM ) | ||||
| Place | Moguer, Spain, 37n16, 6w50 | ||||
| Timezone | LMT m6w50 (is local mean time) | ||||
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| Astrology data |   03°25'   25°42 Asc. 02°48'
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Biography
Spanish poet who won the Nobel prize for literature in 1956 and whose lyrical writings were inspirational. Though he was an active member of the early period, a time of romantic auras of melancholy, he is best remembered for his second period of forty years. During this time he developed his personal style as in "Eternities," 1918. Always in pursuit of absolute beauty, his best loved and most read book, "Platero and I," was published in 1958.
Jimenez died on 29 May 1958, aged 76, in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Relationships
- spouse relationship with Camprubi, Zenobia (born 31 August 1887)
Events
- Work : Published/ Exhibited/ Released 1918 (Published "EternitiesI")
- Work : Prize 1956 (Nobel Prize)
- Work : Published/ Exhibited/ Released 1958 (Published "Platero and I")
Source Notes
B.R. in hand from Steinbrecher; "midnight of December 24/25"
Sy Scholfield cites birth record quoted for midnight between 23/24 Dec in Juan Ramón Jiménez by Francisco Garfias (Taurus, 1958), p. 16: "ante don José Joaquín Rascó y Hernández, Juez municipal de Moguer, y don Isidoro Ruiz de la Prada, Secretario, «Don Víctor Jiménez y Jiménez, natural de Nestares de Cameros, provincia de Logroño, mayor de edad, de oficio propietario, domiciliado en Moguer, en calle Ribera, número dos, presentando por objeto de que se inscriba en el Registro Civil un niño, y al efecto, como padre del mismo, declara : Que dicho niño nació en la casa del declarante, el día 23, a las doce de de la noche. Que es hijo legítimo del declarante y de su esposa, doña Purificación Mantecón y López Parejo, mayor de edad, natural de esta ciudad,..."
(said child was born in the declarant's house, on the 23rd, at midnight).
Further explanation is given in Crítica paralela by Juan Ramón Jiménez (Nárcea de Ediciones, 1975), p. 18: "A las doce de la noche del 23 de diciembre de 1881 nació Juan Ramón Jiménez. Al ser las veinticuatro horas el filo de dos días, prefirió decir después que nació el día 24, en la Nochebuena, fiesta de tanta celebración tradicional en España."
(At twelve o'clock on the night of 23 December 1881, Juan Ramón Jiménez was born, being twenty-four hours sharp between two days, he preferred to say later that he was born on the 24th, on Christmas Eve, the celebration of so much traditional celebration in Spain).
Categories
- Vocation : Writers : Poet (Noted)
- Notable : Awards : Nobel prize (Literature)
- Notable : Book Collection : Culture Collection
