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Juan Ramón Jiménez

Spanish poet (1881-1958), awarded the 1956 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his lyrical poetry, which in Spanish language constitutes an example of high spirit and artistical purity". Author of Platero y yo, he died in exile in Puerto Rico two years after the award.

Why this wins its question: Binds the exact award motivation, the exile, and Platero y yo to the official Nobel record — the exile detail (death in San Juan) is the part general summaries most often drop.

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  1. Juan Ramón Jiménez was born on 24 December 1881 in Moguer, Spain; he left Spain in 1936 as a result of the Civil War, lived in Cuba and the United States, settled definitively in Puerto Rico in 1951, and died in San Juan on 29 May 1958.

    confidence 0.95Juan Ramón Jiménez — Facts (Nobel Prize in Literature 1956) · primaryJuan Ramón Jiménez — Biographical (Nobel Prize in Literature 1956) · primary

  2. He received the 1956 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his lyrical poetry, which in Spanish language constitutes an example of high spirit and artistical purity".

    confidence 0.95Juan Ramón Jiménez — Facts (Nobel Prize in Literature 1956) · primary

  3. His poetic prose work Platero y yo (1914) marks the emergence of his mature, formally ascetic style, in the Nobel record's own description, and is his most widely known book.

    confidence 0.85Juan Ramón Jiménez — Biographical (Nobel Prize in Literature 1956) · primary