The Valencian poet, academic and last Cervantes Award winner dies at the age of 89 in his home in Oliva, among the landscape of his childhood, after a lifetime dedicated to writing, hedonism and friendship.

He was born in 1932. He spent part of the Civil War between Marseille and San Sebastián. When he returned to his native land, still a child, the family settled in the house they called Elca, and that was the childhood paradise where his life began over again. Where his conception of t??he world gained momentum and where he felt a premature idea of ??beauty, acceptance and a mature sense of loss.

In the last interview granted to EL MUNDO, in November 2020, days after the Cervantes Prize was awarded, he said: "I have almost always written from that feeling of loss. And loss, in itself has value. Poetry has both sides: grace and loss. Therefore, it contains the positive and the negative. But the negative in a poet can achieve great poetry."

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