RAQUEL LANSEROS

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RAQUEL LANSEROS. (Jerez of the Border, 1973). Poet, translator, anthologist and University teacher. Nearly 200 critics from more than 100 universities (Harvard, Oxford, Columbia, or Princeton, among them) have chosen her the most relevant female poet in Spanish language born after 1970. His latest poetry book won in 2019 Spain the National Criticism Prize and the Andalusia Prize for Criticism. His poetic work until 2016 has been gathered entirely in the volume Esta momentánea eternity. Poetry (2005-2016). Likewise, she is the author of twelve books of poetry published in France, USA, Colombia, Argentina, Italy, Mexico, Portugal, Morocco, Peru and Puerto Rico. She has also been awarded the Unicaja Prize for Poetry, an Access of the Adonáis Prize, the Train Poetry Prize, the Antonio Machado Prize in Baeza and the Jaén Poetry Prize. In the field of Children's and Youth Literature, he has published with the Edelvives publishing house and with the publishing house Anaya Infantil and Juvenil together with Fernando Marías. As a translator, her versions of Edgar Allan Poe, Lewis Carroll, Sylvia Plath, Louis Aragon or the Brontë sisters stand out. Doctor in Teaching Language and Literature, is also the author of numerous academic publications in the field of poetry, gender studies, the transversality of knowledge and translation.

POETRY NIGHT: Saturday 1st October, 9pm. Cloister of Ibiza Town Hall.