Vicente Aleixandre
(1898-1984 ), Spain. Poet

Nobel Prize in Literature, 1977. The Nobel Prize was granted to Vicente Aleixandre "for a creative poetic writing which illuminates men's condition in the cosmos and present-day society, at the same time representing the great renewal of the traditions of Spanish poetry between the wars."Aleixandre was highly admired in Spain and in Latin America as a life long poet of the people, beginning with his membership in the so-called Poetic Group of 1927, with roots in both the Spanish lyric tradition and in modernism. His poems are free verse and deal with love, death, and eternity. Most of his early poems were sad love poems, but later, his writings rose above the early pessimistic emptiness.