Tomás Segovia (poet)

{{short description|Mexican author, translator and poet}}

{{Other people|Tomás Segovia}}

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Tomás Segovia ({{IPA|es|toˈmas seˈɣoβja}}; 21 May 1927 – 7 November 2011)[http://www.jornada.unam.mx/ultimas/2011/11/07/172619578-fallece-el-poeta-espanol-tomas-segovia Fallece el poeta español Tomás Segovia a los 84 años de edad] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111108145831/http://www.jornada.unam.mx/ultimas/2011/11/07/172619578-fallece-el-poeta-espanol-tomas-segovia |date=8 November 2011 }}{{in lang|es}}{{Cite news |url=http://www.lavanguardia.es/lv24h/20081010/53558141718.html |title=Tomás Segovia, el "poeta de las dos orillas", recibe el Premio García Lorca |publisher=La Vanguardia |language=Spanish |date=10 October 2008 |access-date=15 February 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091201144715/http://www.lavanguardia.es/lv24h/20081010/53558141718.html |archive-date=1 December 2009 |url-status=dead}} was a Mexican author, translator and poet of Spanish origin. He was born in Valencia, Spain, and studied in France and Morocco.{{Cite web |title=Recibió Tomás Segovia el Premio de Poesía "Federico García Lorca" |url=http://www.milenio.com/node/218040 |publisher=Milenio |date=20 May 2009 |language=Spanish }}{{Dead link|date=July 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=no }} He went into exile to Mexico, where he taught at the Colegio de México and other universities. Segovia founded the publication Presencia (1946),{{Cite news|url=http://www.diariocriticocv.com/noticias/not153499.htm |publisher=Diario Critico del Comunitat Valenciana |date=28 October 2004 |language=Spanish |title=Segovia, Amoraga y Villacañas, premios de la crítica valenciana }} was director of La Revista Mexicana de Literatura (1958–1963),{{Cite news|url=http://www.informador.com.mx/entretenimiento/2008/45017/6/la-poesia-espanola-reconoce-de-forma-oficial-a-tomas-segovia.htm |publisher=Informador |date=11 October 2008 |language=Spanish |title=La poesía española reconoce de forma oficial a Tomás Segovia}} formed part of the magazine Plural, and collaborated in Vuelta.{{Cite news|date=16 April 2008 |url=http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/notas/499172.html |publisher=El Universal |title=Presentan libro de cartas entre Octavio Paz y Tomás Segovia |language=Spanish }} He was married to the writer Inés Arredondo from 1953 to 1965.{{cite news |last1=Rosas Lopátegui |first1=Patricia |title=Inés Arredondo: "Tan extraña y tan íntima" |url=https://www.excelsior.com.mx/expresiones/2014/03/22/949925 |access-date=5 April 2023 |work=Excélsior |date=22 March 2014}}

At the time of his death he resided in Madrid, Spain.{{Cite news|first=Ines |last=Gallastegui |url=http://www.ideal.es/granada/20081011/cultura/tomas-segovia-garcia-lorca-20081011.html |date=11 October 2008 |publisher=Ideal |title=Tomás Segovia: "García Lorca es el ambiente de mi juventud" |language=Spanish }}