Juan Ramón Jiménez was a Spanish poet, editor, and critic. Among his better known works are Sonetos espirituales 1914–1916 (“Spiritual Sonnets, 1914–16,” 1916), Piedra y cielo (“Stones and Sky,” 1919), Poesía, en verso, 1917–1923 (1923), Poesía en prosa y verso (“Poetry in Prose and Verse,” 1932), Voces de mi copla (“Voices of My Song,” 1945), and Animal de fondo (“Animal at Bottom,” 1947).
At the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, Jiménez went into exile in Cuba and the U.S. He was a Professor of Spanish Language and Literature at the University of Maryland from 1943 to 1951. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1956.
Jiménez is remembered locally with an academic hall on the University of Maryland named in his honor. A plaque at the entrance features a translation of one of Jiménez’s poems.
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2480 16th St. NW, Washington, DC (The Dorchester)
This large Art Deco apartment building has 394 rental units. The building is cross-shaped, but the arms of the cross are joined off center. Another peculiarity is the long walk to the reception desk and elevators, a configuration the developers created to gain a 16th Street address.
Also home to: John F. Kennedy Zenobia Camprubí Aymar
Juan Ramón Jiménez
4310 Queensbury Rd.
Located in Maryland
Juan Ramón Jiménez
2480 16th St. NW
Located in Adams Morgan neighborhood, Northwest - East of Rock Creek