Luis Cernuda biography at QuotationFun

A Short Biography of Luis Cernuda

Author Name:

Luis Cernuda

Born As:

Luis Cernuda Bidón

Other Names:

Born:

21 Sep 1902

Died:

1963




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Poet and literary critic                          
Selected Works:

Poetry: La realidad y el deseo
Prose poems: Ocnos, Variaciones sobre un tema Mexicano
Criticism: Literatura Poesia I & II.                          
                          
                          
During the Spanish Civil War, deeply moved by the assasination of Federico Garcia Lorca, Cernuda fled to England, where he began an exile that later took him to France, Scotland, Massachusetts - Mount Holyoke College, California and finally settling in Mexico, never to return to Spain. He never married and had no children.