Awards and Recognitions FIL Literary Award in Romance Languages
2000
Juan Gelman
Argentina, 1930-2014) 
Biography
He was born in the Villa Crespo neighborhood, Buenos Aires, in 1930. At the age of eleven he published his first poem in the magazine Rojo y Negro, a love poem that began: "Al amor, sueño eterno y poderoso, / el destino furioso lo cambie". In 1948 he began university studies in chemistry, which he abandoned shortly afterward to devote himself to poetry. His work has been translated into various languages. Gotán was translated into Italian and obtained the Mondello Prize in 1980; he has received, among others, the Boris Vian Prize for Composiciones and Eso; in 1997 he was awarded the National Poetry Prize of his country; the Ramón López-Velarde Ibero-American Poetry Prize in 2004; the following year he received the Reina SofÃa Prize for Poetry; and he also received the Cervantes Prize in 2007.
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