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Prince of Asturias Award for Literature 1988
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Carmen Martín Gaite and José Ángel Valente
Prince of Asturias Award for Literature 1988
Because his poetry, continually evolving from its initial existential beat to subsequent phenomenological inquiry, is a deep interrogation into the meaning of the world, captured in dense, symbolic language of disturbing beauty, which has made him into one of the finest contemporary Spanish lyricists.
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