The Cehegín poet, Gil Fernando Tudela, has died at his home at age 99, having been throughout his life a poetic and cultural reference for a generation of people and local writers.
The funeral will be Tuesday at 18.30 am in the Sanctuary of the Virgen de las Maravillas.
Better known as Fernando 'the mill', displayed his poetry throughout the twentieth century and its particular way of feeling in the world.
His sonnets, published by the City Council in a book that will become cult, they form a perfect synthesis of what was Fernando, a man of great sensitivity, a painter of landscapes, and cast at a time with this kind, both sang in their poems and never went away.
He was a poet since childhood, when he worked in the mill of his father.
"Miller white word", also called the poet Francisco Sánchez Bautista.
Fernando was a minstrel who plotted your destination from the right word and heartfelt.
Alderman, poet ... Fernando is up Cehegín Avenue, Avenida Poeta Fernando Gil Tudela.
And the City Council went into operation this year the First Prize for poetry that bears his name and has been very successful participation.
A whole generation is orphaned no word of a teacher who is gone.
Her voice is printed on the pages and make it all cehegineros immortal.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cehegín