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The monument to León Felipe

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The monument to León Felipe

Monument · Tábara, Tierra de Tábara, Zamora

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The poet was born in Tábara on 11 April 1884 under the name Felipe Camino Galicia. In 1919, on completing the definitive version of his book Versos y oraciones de caminante in Almonacid de Zorita, he adopted for the first time the literary name León Felipe, under which he established himself as one of the great poets in the Spanish language and under which he is sometimes grouped with the Generación del 27, despite belonging to an earlier generation. He lived an eventful life between village pharmacies, the theatre, exile in Mexico and a professorship at Cornell University, and died in Mexico City on 18 September 1968. The square of his home town today preserves a monument to his memory.

Photo: Estevoaei (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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