Salvador Espriu

Poet

Birthday July 10, 1913

Birth Sign Cancer

Birthplace Spain

DEATH DATE Feb 22, 1985 (71)

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About

Spanish, Catalan-language poet, dramatist, and novelist who published La pell de brau in 1960. His other well-known works include Aspectes and Llibre de Sinera.

Before fame

He studied ancient history and law at the University of Barcelona.

Trivia

He was associated with a Catalan, anti-modernist literary movement known as Noucentisme.

Family life

He was the son of a lawyer and spent his childhood mostly in Barcelona and Arenys de Mar.

Associated with

He was, according to literary critic Harold Bloom, a superb author who should have been awarded the Nobel Prize in poetry.