Jiménez and his wife left Spain that same year because of the Spanish Civil War. In 1936 the president of the Spanish Republic offered Jiménez the post of ambassador to the United States, but he declined. Jiménez married Zenobia Camprubi Aymar, the Spanish translator of Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore. He spent time in a sanatorium in Bordeaux, moved back to Madrid, and in 1912 directed publications for the Residencia de Estudiantes of Madrid. Suffering from depression after his father’s death in 1900, Jiménez returned to Moguer. He moved to Madrid after Rubén Darío, a poet and founder of the modernismo literary movement in Spain, became familiar with his poetry and invited him to the city. He was interested in painting but attended the University of Seville to study law. In English translation, his works are collected in Lorca & Jimenez: Selected Poems (1997), translated by Robert Bly, and Selected Writings of Juan Ramón Jiménez (1999), translated by H.R. Jiménez’s other books of poetry include Elejías puras ( Pure Elegies, 1908), La soledad sonora ( Sonorous Solitude, 1911), Poesía ( Poetry, 1923), and Belleza ( Beauty, 1923). He was born in Moguer i Andalusia, an area that he depicted in Platero y Yo ( Platero and I, 1914) a collection of prose poems about a man and his donkey. A prolific Spanish poet, editor, and critic, Juan Ramón Jiménez won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1956.
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