The spanish poet Gabriel Celaya He was born in 1911 in the Basque town of Hernani, province of Guipúzcoa. His real name was much longer (Rafael Gabriel Juan Múgica Celaya Laceta), so he played with that when publishing using various aliases such as Rafael Múgica or Juan Laceta, something that gave him many possibilities at a time when he persecuted poets so much that they spoke of the reality of the country.
I study in Madrid and he had contact with the Student Residence where he drank from the cultural and artistic creation environment that was lived there. He obtained the Bécquer Centennial Prize with "La soledad closed" and finally when the civil war began, Celaya was clear about his side and served as captain of the republican army, which would bring him many enemies at the end of it.
He founded a collection of poetry called North together with his partner Amparo Gastón and in 1956 he left engineering, which was his profession and to which he had dedicated his studies and much of his time to dedicate himself to the family business at the head of which he was able to give himself completely to literature obtaining the Critics Prize and the National Prize for Letters before his death, which took place in Madrid in 1991.
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Photo - Gabriel Celaya
Source - Oxford University Press