The Cordoba poet and 1984 recipient of the Prince of Asturias Literature Award Pablo García Baena has passed away at 94 years of age, according to a Twitter post sent earlier by the Minister of Culture, Miguel Ángel Vázquez.

Born in Córdoba in 1923, García Baena began his career publishing poems and drawings in the local press under the pseudonym of Luis Cárdenas; in 1946, he published his first book of poems in the magazine Fantasía. And, a year later, he founded with his friend Ricardo Molina the magazine Cántico, one of the most significant literary magazines of the post-war period in Spain. His passing marks the disappearance of the last surviving voice of Cántico, a group of poets and artists that emerged in Cordova in the postwar years, and which included Juan Bernier, Julio Aumente and Mario López, as well as the painters Miguel del Moral and Ginés Liébana, who established a connection with the Generation of 27 in numerous publications between the years 1947 and 1957.

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