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Spain to recognise civil war poet Miguel Hernández

By Sarah Rainsford BBC News, Madrid

Miguel Hernandez is ranked among Spain's finest poets

The Spanish government says it will formally recognise one of the country's best-known poets as a victim of the dictatorship of Gen Francisco Franco.

It will present the family of the poet, Miguel Hernandez, with an official letter rehabilitating his memory.
Hernandez was imprisoned as a traitor 70 years ago for supporting the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War, and died in prison at the age of 31.
The family applied for his rehabilitation under a 2007 law.
The decision to rehabilitate him comes as Spain marks the centenary of the poet's birth with a series of events.
"We have always lived with this sadness, and finally we have cleansed his memory," the poet's daughter-in-law, Lucia Izquierdo, told the BBC.
"We wanted his image restored as a poet of the people, and a great man."
................................................No perdono a la muerte enamorada,
............................................... no perdono a la vida desatenta,
................................................no perdono a la tierra ni a la nada

.......................................................................................From "Elegía a Ramón Sijé" M. Hernández