Claudio Guillén Cahen (2 September 1924 in Paris – 27 January 2007 in Madrid) was a Spanish writer and literary scholar.
He was a visiting fellow in Germany, Italy, Brazil, among others; and speaker at conferences, seminars and courses in China, the USSR and several Eastern European countries.
He frequented some circles of exiled Spanish intellectuals and kept in contact with Ángel del Río, Américo Castro and Pedro Salinas.
He had an intensive academic activity since this same year, when he became professor of Comparative Literature at the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona.
[1] He had recently finished a book about Goethe and was working on the edition of his father's letters when he died at the age of 82 in Madrid.