Vicente Aleixandre — Nobel Prize in Literature 1977

“for a creative poetic writing which illuminates man's condition in the cosmos and in present-day society, at the same time representing the great renewal of the traditions of Spanish poetry between the wars”

The Swedish Academy awarded Vicente Aleixandre the 1977 Nobel Prize in Literature for a creative poetic writing which illuminates man's condition in the cosmos and in present-day society, at the same time representing the great renewal of the traditions of Spanish poetry between the wars.