Generation of 98

Miguel de Unamuno Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo was born in Bilbao on 29 September 1864 and died in Salamanca on 31 December 1936. Professor of Greek language and literature at the University of Salamanca, he served as its rector from 1900 to 1914 and again from 1931, under the Second Republic. A central figure of the Generation of 98, he wrote essays, poetry, drama and novels, and rejected a rigid separation between philosophy and literature. For his opposition to the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera he was exiled to Fuerteventura in 1924 and later lived in Paris and Hendaye until 1930. ...