Spanish poet and editor Emilio Prados was BOTD in 1899. Born in Málaga, he studied in Madrid where he befriended Salvador Dalí, Luis Buñuel and Federico García Lorca. After a long stay in a sanatorium, he decided to become a writer, immersing himself in the artistic milieu of Paris and meeting Pablo Picasso. Returning to Málaga in 1924, he co-founded the influential literary magazine Litoral and became a literary editor, publishing most of the key writers of the “Generation of 27”, including Lorca. He also wrote and published his own poetry, mixing Modernist and avant-garde elements with his own Arabic and Andalusian heritage. With the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, he returned to Madrid in 1936 and devoted himself to the anti-Fascist and Republican causes. He was forced to flee Spain when the Nationalists won victory, eventually settling in Mexico. Little is known about his personal life, though his later poetry was suffused with homoerotic themes and imagery. He died in 1962, aged 63. His diaries were published posthumously, revealing a long struggle with his homosexuality.