Spanish poet Francisco Brines has been announced as the winner of this year's City of Granada International Poetry Prize, which is worth €50,000 euros. Brines was one of a generation of Spanish authors ('la generación de los 50s) that was actively opposed to General Franco's fascist dictatorship and which included, amongst others: José Ángel Valente, Ángel González, Jaime Gil de Biedma, Carlos Barral, José Agustín Goytisolo, Carmen Martín Gaite, Ana María Matute and Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio.

Born in Oliva in 1932, Brines now lives in Valencia and Madrid. He was educated at a Jesuit college in Valencia before obtaining degrees in Literature at universities in Valencia, Salamanca and Deusto and Arts and Philosophy in Madrid. He has taught Spanish Literature at Oxford University and has been a Reader at Cambridge University.

In 2001, he was made a member of the Spanish Royal Academy to occupy 'Seat X' that had been vacant since the death of playwright, Antonio Buero Vallejo, although Brines did not actually take up the post until May 2006.

Best-known literary publications:
1959 Las Brasas.
1965 El Santo Inocente.
1965 La Muerte De Sócrates.
1967 Palabras a la Oscuridad.
1971 Aún No.
1960-1971 Poesías.
1977 Insistencias en Luzbel.
1987 El Otoño de las Rosas.
1995 La Última Costa.
1997 Breve antología personal.
1997 Selección de poemas.
1997 Ensayo de una despedida (1960-1997). Complete collection.
1998 Antología poética.
2004 Amada vida mía.