Poetic Obituaries: Born in Antequera on 9th October 1909,

José Antonio Muñoz Rojas was a member of the Generation of '36 group of poets and was a co-founder of the ‘Nueva Revista' literary review.

It was not until his later years that he received official recognition for his works. He was awarded the National Poetry Prize in 1998, the Reina Sofía Iberoamerican Poetry Prize in 2002, and was a favoured son of Andalucía.

from Typically Spanish: Antequera mourns its much-loved poet

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