CELSO Amieva (1911-1988) “I speak of those heroes who have killed twenty-three Nazis today February 22, 1944 in Mont-Valerien. Twenty men in their early twenties young successfully executed over a decapitated with an ax young twenty-three dead poets know that this Her name was Olga Bancic … “Celso Amieva. Celso Amieva spent four years in French concentration camps. Their experiences are collected in the sand pillow, a book of poems written in concentration camps. Another book in prose, Poet in the sand, not published until 1964 – is a complement to the book of poems. And both are historical documents to learn about the life of the Spanish Republicans in the concentration camps.
Verses of the Maquis, is also a testimony of the French Resistance, which Amieva involved until the end of the war. Amieva not only tells the epic of the Spanish guerrillas, but the history of all at that time fighting for freedom on French soil. The poet, journalist and screenwriter Celso Amieva (pseudonym of Jose Maria alvarez Posada, also called Serdal Lino Elias Pombo, and Corsino Fideal Urrieles) was born in the Cantabrian population Puente de San Miguel on March 19, 1911 and died in Moscow in 1988. Son Asturian family, his father was the teaching profession in the town that gave birth to a poet, although he always considered Asturias. He studied at the Ecole Normale de Oviedo and he taught in several towns in Asturias. Was only fourteen when he published his first poems in The Echo of the Valley, Daily Bread, and the weeklies Llanes El Pueblo and El Oriente de Asturias.