Jaime Gil de Biedma, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Jaime Gil de Biedma

Spanish poet

Date of Birth: 13-Nov-1929

Place of Birth: Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Date of Death: 08-Jan-1990

Profession: writer, poet

Nationality: Spain

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Jaime Gil de Biedma y Alba (November 13, 1929 – January 8, 1990) was a Spanish post-Civil War poet. He was born in Nava de la Asunción on November 13, 1929.
He stopped writing poetry some ten years before his death.
He insisted that the character he had invented, the poet Jaime Gil de Biedma, as opposed to the respectable bourgeois businessman of the same name, had nothing left to say and he refused to go on playing the role of a poet in literary society. He died on January 8, 1990, of complications due to AIDS.