Machado, Antonio
Died: 1939 AD, at 63 years of age.
Nationality: Spanish
Categories: Playwrights, Poets
Spanish lyric poet.
1875 - Born on the 26th of July in Seville.
1899 - Traveled with his brother to Paris to work as translators for a French publisher.
1901 - Wrote his poems published in the literary journal 'Electra'.
1907 - Published his work with the title Soledades. Galerías. Otros Poemas.
1909 - Married Leonor Izquierdo daughter of the owners of the boarding house Machado was staying in.
1916 - Published Campos de Castilla published along with the first edition of Nuevas canciones.
1919-1931 - Professor of French in Segovia then he moved here to be nearer to Madrid, where Manuel lived.
1936 - Francisco Franco launched his coup d'état.
1938 - Machado was evacuated with his elderly mother and uncle to Valencia, and then to Barcelona.
1939 - On the 22nd of February that Antonio Machado died, just three days before his mother.