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Zenobia Camprubí-Juan Ramón Jiménez Library

Our library is an open-access space and an information center about Spain and the Hispanic world

The library at Instituto Cervantes in New Delhi bears the name of the Spanish writer,  poet, and Nobel Laureate (1956) Juan Ramón Jiménez and his wife Zenobia Camprubí, writer and translator of Rabindranath Tagore in Spanish.

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Resources and Collections

Presently (as of January 2015) the library stock accounts for more than 18000 documents (books, magazines and newspapers, DVDs, CDs, CD-ROMs, e-books, e-audiobooks, electronic resources,  comics, maps etc), the majority of which is freely accessible. This collection would be increased and made up to date over time through library acquisitions, and further sustained through donations received from institutions and individuals. The library aims to present a pluralistic and contemporary image of the Spanish speaking community.

Owing to the specialist nature of the library, the materials are predominantly in Spanish; however the collection also has some documents in Catalan, Galician, Basque, English, Hindi, Bengali etc.

Collection

Printed matter

  • Reference Books: Consisting of Encyclopaedias, Dictionaries, Directories, Guides, Bibliographies, Catalogues, and other general documents for consultation.
  • Spanish and Latin American Literature.
  • ELE Materials: Publications specializing in Spanish learning and teaching methodology in all forms of media. Moreover, there are also materials for DELE exam preparation.
  • Local Collection: Comprises of works on Spain-Latin America-India relations. In addition, there are documents of Spanish and Hispano-American language and culture which have been published in India. One can also find translations of Spanish and Hispano-American authors in some of the official languages of India, and writings of Indian authors translated into Spanish, Catalan, Galician and Basque.
  • Documents on Philosophy, Religion, Law, Politics, Economics, Arts, Cinema, Music, Linguistics, Literary Criticism, Geography, History etc. related to Spain and Latin America.
  • Documents in Catalan, Galician and Basque.
  • Children's Literature.
  • Comics.
  • Newspaper and Magazine Section: Comprising of magazines on Literature, Politics, Art, Cinema, Music etc., as well as Spanish newspapers giving general information.
  • Zenobia Camprubí-Juan Ramón Jiménez collection.

Other media

  • DVDs: Spanish and Hispano-American movies, documentaries and TV series.
  • Audio CDs: Spanish and Latin American music.
  • Audio books.
  • CD-ROM: Scientific databases (Dictionaries, Encyclopaedias, Bibliographies etc.).

Online Resources

  • The library offers e-resources, providing online access to bibliographies, yearbooks, directories, dictionaries, bibliographic databases, documentaries, books and documents, digital media, electronic encyclopaedias etc.
  • Among these resources, one can find national newspapers like El Pais, La Vanguardia, Le Monde Diplomatique, Factiva (International Digital Press), Data Bases of the CSIC, Aranzadi Westlaw, Files of Senior Staff, online Encyclopaedia Britannia, Ocenet Saber, official bulletins etc.
  • Link to: Online e-library
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Address
48, Hanuman Road
New Delhi - 110 001
Phone
(+91 11) 43 68 19 17
E-mail
bibndel@cervantes.es
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Biography of Name and Surname

juan Ramón Jiménez Mantecón. (Moguer, Huelva, December 23, 1881 – San Juan, Puerto Rico, May 29, 1958). Spanish poet and Nobel Prize laureate in Literature. He studied at the University of Seville but abandoned his studies in law and painting to devote himself to literature, influenced by Rubén Darío and the French Symbolists. He suffered several episodes of depressive neurosis and was hospitalized in France and Madrid; he eventually settled permanently in the latter city. He traveled to France and the United States, where he married Zenobia Camprubí in 1916. In 1936, upon the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, he went into exile in the United States, Cuba, and Puerto Rico. It was in Puerto Rico that he received news of being awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1956.

 

Juan Ramón Jiménez's poetic career unfolded in three stages:

Sensory stage (1898–1915): marked by the influence of Bécquer, Symbolism, and Modernism. This period is characterized by landscape descriptions, vague emotions, melancholy, music and color, and romantic memories and daydreams. It is an emotive and sentimental poetry in which the poet's sensitivity shines through the perfection of the formal structure.

Intellectual stage (1916–1936): discovery of the sea as a transcendent motif. The sea symbolizes life, solitude, joy, and the eternal present. A spiritual evolution also begins, leading him to seek transcendence. In his desire for salvation in the face of death, he strives to attain eternity through beauty and poetic refinement.

"True" stage (1937–1958): comprising all works written during his exile in the Americas.

Juan Ramón Jiménez’s poetic body of work is vast; throughout his life—driven by a constant desire for self-improvement—he would repudiate certain books while salvaging individual poems from them, almost always revising the latter in subsequent anthologies.

Zenobia Camprubí Aymar (Malgrat de Mar, Barcelona, ​​August 31, 1887 – San Juan, Puerto Rico, October 28, 1956). A poet and translator, she married the Nobel Prize-winning author Juan Ramón Jiménez. She served as his muse and collaborator on translations of English-language poetry, most notably the works of Rabindranath Tagore, Shakespeare, Edgar Allan Poe, and other English classics.

The library at the Instituto Cervantes in New Delhi is named after Zenobia Camprubí and Juan Ramón Jiménez

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