About Salvador Espriu
Salvador Espriu, Spanish author, poet, and playwright (died 1985) Espriu, who had begun to write poetry before the war, did not publish his first volume of poems until 1946: Cementiri de Sinera, an elegy with a great formal sobriety. The bibliography of Espriu contains two more poems, included in the first volume of his Complete works (1968) (Per al llibre de salms d'aquests vells cecs and Fragments. At the age of sixteen, he published his first book, Israel, written in Spanish. He was awarded honorary doctor's degrees by the universities of Toulouse and Barcelona.
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