Background
Cendoya was born in Santander.
Cendoya was born in Santander.
He studied Philosophy & the Humanities at the University of Deusto, and later at the universities of Salamanca and Madrid, where he earned his doctorate.
Cendoya taught language and literature at institutes of learning in Soria, Gijón, Santander and Madrid. He also acted as literary and music critic for several newspapers. With Juan Larrea, he founded the Ultraísta Movement in 1919.
He was professor of literature and music
He began his poetic work with El romancero de la novia (1920). The extensive poetic work of Cendoya has always varied between the themes and expressions of Vanguardism and the more classical structures of poetry.
In 1925, he was awarded the National Prize for Literature for his book Versos humanos. He began to publish the journal Carmen y Lola, of Vanguardist character, in 1927.
In 1932 he published Poesía española contemporánea.
He was elected to the Spanish Royal Academy in 1947. He died in Madrid, in 1987, aged 90.
Real Academia Española.