Ángel Crespo (18 July 1926 in Alcolea de Calatrava, Province of Ciudad Real – 12 December 1995 in Barcelona) was a Spanish poet and translator.
One of Spain's most prestigious translation prizes, the Premio de Traducción Ángel Crespo, was named after him.
He was labeled a traitor under Spain’s Francoist State for signing a petition to protest the torture of miners in Asturias.
He lived with his wife, translator and professor Pilar Gómez Bedate, in various places including Sweden and Puerto Rico before returning to Spain in the 1980s.
Victor García de la Concha, professor at the University of Salamanca and Director of the Royal Spanish Academy, has written that “few Spanish poets of the last forty years have achieved a voice as vital and sustained as Ángel Crespo.” His work is often surreal and manifests a deep engagement with nature and the classics.