Juan Ramon Jimenez and Zenobia Camprubi: From Maryland to the Nobel Prize (1943-1956)

Three day event that will display the preeminence of Juan Ramón for the study of Spanish literature in the United States, its impact on US literature, the plasticity of Jiménez's poetry as displayed in Juan Gómez Macías's art and the involvement at Maryland of the Jiménez's, (Zenobia Camprubí and Juan Ramón Jiménez taught at UMCP from 1943-1951) particularly in view of the 150th Anniversary of the Foundation of the University of Maryland. Participants:Antonio T de Nicolas (Professor Emeritus, State University of New York, Stoney Brook) is the principal translator of JRJ into English. Juan Gómez Macías, Director of the Fundación Luis González Brú (San Roque) is a poet and international plastic artist who has devoted himself to explore the symbolic order of JRJ in iconic form. Mercedes Julia (Vilanova University) has written on JRJ and has recently edited "Tiempo". Christopher Maurer (Boston University), has written a biography of Juan Ramón Jiménez: "The Complete Perfectionist: A Poetics of Work" (1997). Jose María Naharro-Calderón (University of Maryland at College Park), Coordinator of the Symposium, is a specialist of the Spanish Exile of 1939 and JRJ. Graciela Nemes (Emerita, University of Maryland at College Park) Official Authorized Biographer of Juan Ramón Jiménez and Zenobia Camprubí.