Claudio Guillén was a Spanish writer.

History

He was a son of the poet Jorge Guillén

Jorge Guillén

Jorge Guillén y Álvarez was a Spanish poet, a member of the Generation of '27.-Biography:Jorge Guillén was born in Valladolid. His life paralleled that of his friend Pedro Salinas, whom he succeeded as a Spanish teaching assistant at the Collège de Sorbonne in the University of Paris from 1917 to...

, with whom he left his country in 1939 to live in exile in the United States

United States

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. He specialized in comparative literature

Comparative literature

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, and, between 1965 and 1985, he was a professor of this subject at the University of California, San Diego

University of California, San Diego

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, Princeton University

Princeton University

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 and Harvard University

Harvard University

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. In 1982, he returned to Spain, and he taught comparative literature at the University of Barcelona

University of Barcelona

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. In 1999, he was rewarded with the National Prize of Essay

Premio Nacional de Literatura

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, for his essay "Múltiples moradas". Since March 2002, he was a member of the Spanish Royal Academy.