Malaga to return Nobel Prize winner Vicente Aleixandre's bedroom furniture to Madrid after 20 years in storage

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Malaga to return Nobel Prize winner Vicente Aleixandre's bedroom furniture to Madrid after 20 years in storage

The new headquarters of the Centro del 27 on Calle Carretería will exhibit the furniture for the first time before its temporary move to Madrid

Añádenos en Google Vicente Aleixandre in his bedroom in the Velintonia house in Madrid, alongside current photos of the bed and drawers stored in Malaga. (SUR)

Regina Sotorrío

01/07/2026 a las 12:21h.

The provincial authority in Malaga has agreed to lend the bedroom furniture of Nobel Prize-winning poet Vicente Aleixandre to the Madrid regional government, allowing it to return to the house where he wrote many of his best-known works.

Before the furniture leaves for Madrid, the provincial authority will put it on public display for the first time as part of a major exhibition marking the centenary of the Generation of '27 (an influential group of poets that arose in Spanish literary circles between 1923 and 1927, known for their shared affinity for avant-garde art and poetry).

The exhibition will open in early 2027 at the new headquarters of the Centro del 27, in the restored 18th-century Palacio de Valdeflores on Calle Carretería in Malaga.

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• History

  • Aleixandre, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1977, spent much of his later life confined to bed because of poor health. From his bedroom at Velintonia 3, he wrote many of the poems that secured his place in Spanish literature, including Ciudad del Paraíso, inspired by memories of his childhood in Malaga. Photographs of the poet writing from his bed became some of the most recognisable images of his final years.

    After Aleixandre's death and that of his sister Conchita in 1986, the house fell into disrepair as inheritance disputes left it empty for decades. During that time, some of the poet's personal belongings disappeared from public view.

    Among them was his bedroom furniture, which has remained storaed up in the archives of Malaga's Generation of '27 cultural centre for around 20 years. The collection includes his bed and headboard, wardrobe, bedside table, a wooden washstand with its basin, as well as his mattress and bedspread. Only one drawer from the washstand is missing. Despite remaining in good condition, the collection has never gone on display because of a lack of exhibition space.

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