Emeterio Gutiérrez Albelo
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Emeterio Gutiérrez Albelo (Icod de los Vinos
, Tenerife
, Canary Islands
, August 20, 1905 - Santa Cruz de Tenerife
, Canary Islands
, August 6, 1969) was a Spanish
poet and participated in the Generación del 27.
His father, Emeterio Gutiérrez López was a director of the periodical La Comarca, in whose pages Gutiérrez Albelo published its first poems. He received his baccalaureate and Master's in La Laguna and worked during his entire life in different parts of the island. His first work was entitled La Fuente de Juvencio (1925). In Vilaflor
in the south of the island, he worked at an elementary school, writing his first published book, Campanario de la Primavera (1930). He wrote two more works, including Romanticismo y cuenta nueva (1933) and Enigma del invitado (1936, and worked as an editor for the Tenerife review, the Gaceta de Arte, an important vehicle for poetic surrealism in Tenerife.
During the Spanish Civil War
in 1936, he went to Gaceta de Arte and joined in the activities of the surrealist group on the island. On August 15, 1936, he married Donatila Airenza Fumero. He also edited two other books: Los blancos pies en tierra (1951), a collection of sonnets for which he received the Canarian award of poems known as "Tomás Morales" of the Asociación de la Prensa de Las Palmas; and Geocanción de España (1964), a descriptive poem in the unamunous style. He was also the founder and director of the review Gánigo from 1953 until his death.
Other works that he published include:
Icod de los Vinos
Icod de los Vinos is a municipality in the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife on the island of Tenerife, in the Canary Islands , located in the northwest part of the island. Inhabitants of Icod are known in Spanish as "icodenses"....
, Tenerife
Tenerife
Tenerife is the largest and most populous island of the seven Canary Islands, it is also the most populated island of Spain, with a land area of 2,034.38 km² and 906,854 inhabitants, 43% of the total population of the Canary Islands. About five million tourists visit Tenerife each year, the...
, Canary Islands
Canary Islands
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, August 20, 1905 - Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Santa Cruz de Tenerife is the capital , second-most populous city of the Autonomous Community of the Canary Islands and the 21st largest city in Spain, with a population of 222,417 in 2009...
, Canary Islands
Canary Islands
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, August 6, 1969) was a Spanish
Spain
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poet and participated in the Generación del 27.
His father, Emeterio Gutiérrez López was a director of the periodical La Comarca, in whose pages Gutiérrez Albelo published its first poems. He received his baccalaureate and Master's in La Laguna and worked during his entire life in different parts of the island. His first work was entitled La Fuente de Juvencio (1925). In Vilaflor
Vilaflor, Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Vilaflor is the name of a Spanish municipality and a village in the south central part of the island of Tenerife, one of the Canary Islands, and part of the Santa Cruz de Tenerife ....
in the south of the island, he worked at an elementary school, writing his first published book, Campanario de la Primavera (1930). He wrote two more works, including Romanticismo y cuenta nueva (1933) and Enigma del invitado (1936, and worked as an editor for the Tenerife review, the Gaceta de Arte, an important vehicle for poetic surrealism in Tenerife.
During the Spanish Civil War
Spanish Civil War
The Spanish Civil WarAlso known as The Crusade among Nationalists, the Fourth Carlist War among Carlists, and The Rebellion or Uprising among Republicans. was a major conflict fought in Spain from 17 July 1936 to 1 April 1939...
in 1936, he went to Gaceta de Arte and joined in the activities of the surrealist group on the island. On August 15, 1936, he married Donatila Airenza Fumero. He also edited two other books: Los blancos pies en tierra (1951), a collection of sonnets for which he received the Canarian award of poems known as "Tomás Morales" of the Asociación de la Prensa de Las Palmas; and Geocanción de España (1964), a descriptive poem in the unamunous style. He was also the founder and director of the review Gánigo from 1953 until his death.
Other works that he published include:
- Antología poética, lit. Poetic Anthology (1969)
- Poesía última (1970)
- El rincón de la amistad (1971)
- Tenerife y el mar, lit. Tenerife and the Sea (1973)
- Las alas del tiempo (1974).