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Spanish writer and academic
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In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is de Azúa and the second or maternal family name is Comella.
The Most ExcellentFélix de Azúa
BornFélix de Azúa Comella
(1944-04-30) 30 April 1944 (age 80)
Barcelona, Spain
Seat H of the Real Academia Española
Incumbent
Assumed office
13 March 2016
Preceded byMartí de Riquer i Morera

Félix de Azúa Comella (Barcelona, 30 April 1944) is a Spanish professor of aesthetics and philosophy, poet, novelist, essayist and translator, member of Real Academia Española.

He taught Spanish literature at the University of Oxford from 1979 to 1981. He was director of the Institut Cervantes in Paris. With Eduardo Mendoza Garriga, Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, José Ángel Valente, Antonio Gamoneda, Pere Gimferrer, Julián Ríos and others, he is part of the generation of writers who revived democratic Spain.

He was elected to Seat H of the Real Academia Española on 18 June 2015; he took up his seat on 13 March 2016.

Notes

  1. Elected on 18 June 2015

References

  1. "100 years". mod-langs.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 13 September 2018.
  2. "Félix de Azúa" (in Spanish). Real Academia Española. Archived from the original on 14 May 2016.

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He was elected in 1849 but never took the seat and it was declared vacant; He was elected in 1894 but never took the seat
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He/she was elected but is pending to take the seat


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