José Rubia Barcia [SEP] date of birth
José Rubia Barcia
José Rubia Barcia (1914–1997) was born in Ferrol (Galicia), where a cultural center dedicated to him now houses his library and a collection of his papers. He studied Arabic and Hispano-Arabic literature at the University of Granada. After completing his degree he held important positions in the Spanish Republican Army during the Spanish Civil War and as a consequence he went into exile, first to France and then to Cuba and then to the United States. Here he worked in Hollywood with the Spanish film
). Co-translated with José Rubia Barcia. Reprinted in César Vallejo, The Complete Posthumous Poetry (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1978). 15 pages.
- César Vallejo, The Complete Posthumous Poetry (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1978). Co-translated with José Rubia Barcia. 339 pages.
- Aimé Césaire, Some African Poems in English (Pasadena, CA: Munger Africana Library, California Institute of Technology, 1981). Co-translated with Annette Smith. Reprinted in