© A. García JiménezJosé María Muñoz Quirós
Invitado de Honor
(Ávila, 1957) holds a degree in Hispanic Philology from the Universidad de Salamanca, a PhD in Literature Theory and is a professor of Language and Literature. He is the president of the “Juglares de Fontiveros” poetry academy and director of the literary magazine El Cobaya.
His books and awards include: Ritual de los espejos (1990), runner-up, Premio Adonais; El sueño del guerrero, “Tiflos” National Poetry Prize; El cuaderno de invierno (1998), San Lesmes Abad International Poetry Prize, City of Burgos; Material reservado (1998), Jaime Gil de Biedma International Poetry Prize; El color de la noche (2007), Ciudad de Salamanca Poetry Prize; El rostro de la niebla (2009), Alfons el Magnànim Spanish Poetry Prize, Valencia. For his combined works, he received the Teresa de Ávila National Letters Award in 2018.
Two doctoral theses have been written on his work in poetry, at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and the Universidad de Valladolid.
His poems have been translated into different languages: French, Italian, German, Portuguese, Arabic, Bengali, and more.
He has published books with plastic artists such as Agustín Ibarrola, Antonio Oteiza, Florencio Galindo and Ángel Sardina, among others.
Other activities involving the participant:
Meetings (and misunderstandings). Santa Teresa de Jesús and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. Beloved sisters
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