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Jaime Gil de Biedma
Jaime Gil de Biedma y Alba (13 November 1929 – 8 January 1990) was a Spanish post-Civil War poet.
He was born in Nava de la Asunción[1] on 13 November 1929.
He stopped writing poetry some ten years before his death. He insisted that the character he had invented, the poet Jaime Gil de Biedma, as opposed to the respectable bourgeois businessman of the same name, had nothing left to say and he refused to go on playing the role of a poet in literary society.
Jaime Gil de Biedma was born in Barcelona in 1929.
He died on 8 January 1990 of complications due to AIDS.[2]
English influence
Among his readers, he is considered one of the most consummate Anglophiles in the field of contemporary peninsular literature.
This Anglophilia was initiated when he first read T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets (translated in 1952).
He was also a considerable Francophile as befitted a young Spaniard of his elevated social class, bearing in mind that Spanish society had always been notoriously 'afrances