José Rubia Barcia, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Spanish literary critic
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Place of Birth: Mugardos (municipality), Galicia, Spain
About José Rubia Barcia
- José Rubia Barcia (1914–1997) was born in Ferrol (Galicia), where a cultural center dedicated to him now houses his library and a collection of his papers.
- He studied Arabic and Hispano-Arabic literature at the University of Granada.
- After completing his degree he held important positions in the Spanish Republican Army during the Spanish Civil War and as a consequence he went into exile, first to France and then to Cuba and then to the United States.
- Here he worked in Hollywood with the Spanish film director Luis Buñuel.
- Barcia published a great number of books and articles on Valle Inclán, Unamuno, Federico García Lorca and other writers of the 20th century.
- He was also an author of political essays. Rubia and Clayton Eshleman jointly prepared The Complete Posthumous Poetry of César Vallejo (1978) and won the U.S.
- National Book Award, category Translation.
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