The Casa-Museo Zenobia y Juan Ramón Jiménez (House and Museum of Zenobia and Juan Ramón Jiménez) is located in the town of Moguer in Huelva Province, Andalusia, Spain.
Moguer, the poet’s home town, is the setting for his beloved book of prose poetry Platero y yo (Platero and I).
Juan Ramón Jiménez (1881–1958) was a Spanish poet who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1956 for “his lyrical poetry, which in the Spanish language constitutes an example of high spirit and artistical purity.”
Jiménez is one my favorite authors and has been so ever since high school when I read Platero y yo, his most famous book, in English translation.
Zenobia Camprubí (1887–1956) was the poet’s wife. She herself was a writer and poet and the translator of the works of Rabindranath Tagore.
I traveled to Andalusia in May and June of this year with a friend. Jiménez’s birthplace in Moguer, now a museum, was a must see, partly because Platero and yo is suffused with local color.
The museum was well worth the visit.
–– Roger W. Smith
June 2016
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photographs by Roger W. Smith
