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The Department of Culture, through the City Library, has organized a concert tribute to Antonio Machado, from the hand of Paco Damas, to mark the 70th anniversary of his death.
This activity will take place on Thursday October 22 at 20:30 am in the classroom culture of CAM.
In this tribute assist students in secondary schools in Jumilla with the reading of several poems.
Antonio Machado, was a Spanish poet and prose writer, belonging to the literary movement known as generation 98.
Probably the poet of his time who most read yet.
V was born in Seville and later lived in Madrid, where he studied.
In 1893 he published his first prose writings, while his first poems appeared in 1901.
He traveled to Paris in 1899, the city which he revisited in 1902, the year he met Rubén Darío, which will be a great friend throughout his life.
In Madrid, about the same time met Unamuno, Valle-Inclán, Juan Ramón Jiménez and other prominent writers with whom he maintained a close friendship.
He was professor of French, and married Leonor Izquierdo, who will die in 1912.
In 1927 he was elected to the Royal Academy of the Spanish language.
During the twenties and thirties wrote plays with his brother, also a poet, Manuel, premiering several works among which are La Lola is going to ports 1929, and The Duchess of Benamejí, 1931.
At the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War was in Madrid.
He later moved to Valencia and Barcelona, and in January 1939 was exiled to the French village of Collioure, where he died in February.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Jumilla
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