Juan Ramón Jiménez
Juan Ramón Jiménez (
December 24,
1881 -
May 29,
1958) was a
Spanish poet. He was born in Moguer, near
Huelva in the
Andalusia region of Southern
Spain. He made the region famous with his prose poem about a writer and his donkey, called
Platero y Yo (
1914). He was a prolific poet and wrote several dozen books. He was an opponent of the regime of
Francisco Franco and fled to
Puerto Rico in
1939. He received the
Nobel Prize in Literature in
1956.
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