Other legacies

JOSÉ GARCÍA NIETO'S POSTWAR POETRY ROOM:

“García Nieto was perhaps my best friend in the literature sphere. We were very different in character, perhaps we were complementary, and that is why we were so united." Words from CJC to the press on the day José García Nieto died.
The friendship that united Camilo José Cela and José García Nieto began in the 1940s, when both writers frequented the literary gathering held in Café Gijón, and lasted throughout the years, both emotionally and professionally. The legacy of José García Nieto that is preserved at the Foundation includes published works, manuscripts, lectures, journalistic articles, as well as different prizes and diplomas, including the National Literature Prize of 1951 —for his work Tregua— and 1957 —for Geografía es amor— and the Cervantes Prize, which he was granted in 1996.
This legacy is second in importance after the legacy of the Nobel Prize winner from Padrón since it is undoubtedly one of the most important collections of Spanish postwar poetry, with more than 2,000 monographs.

Camilo José Cela with José García Nieto.

The Camilo Jose Cela Foundation regularly collaborates with the José García Nieto Foundation in the annual call for the José García Nieto International Micropoetry Contest.

To learn more about the poet from Oviedo visit his Foundation's website:

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Other legacies:

In addition to Camilo Jose Cela's and José García Nieto's legacies, other authors have bequeathed their legacies to the Foundation to be kept and preserved for posterity: the legacy of the Padrón writer Nicasio Pajares —bequeathed by his daughter María del Carmen Pajares Escolano—, writer José María Sánchez-Silva's, Granada-born painter Eduardo Correa's, the legacy on Dámaso Alonso entrusted by Cela’s bibliographer, Fernando Huarte Morton, and others who round off the library collections and who make up an ensemble unique in the world.

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