(Spain, 1966)
Writer and university professor of comparative literature. He is a versatile and multidisciplinary author. An unrepentant adventurer and traveler, his life has been spent all over the world, as he has lived for many years in Europe, America and Africa, which has left a deep mark on his poetic and narrative work. The cities of Paris, Venice and Cartagena de Indias are the recurring settings of his poems and stories, from Manual para enamorar princesas (Madrid, SIAL, 2005) to Guía de lugares inexistentes (Madrid, Pigmalión , 2011), poetry collections translated into a dozen languages that have won numerous awards, or the novel Desventuras de un seductor (Free Press, 2020).
President of Poetas sin Fronteras (2020-2022), he is currently part of the ecopoetry trend, which is present in poetry collections like Expulsión del paraíso. Poemario del Caribe (Madrid and Bogotá, Pigmalión y Pijao, 2018), winner of Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer International Award; or Un mar de nombre impronunciable (Madrid, Hiperión, 2020), winner of the Claudio Rodríguez International Poetry Prize.
He has combined his dedication to cinema, fashion and gastronomy with intense creative work in the academic and literary fields. Founder and director of the Betanzos International Film Week, now in its 21st edition, his studies have focused on the work of Cervantes and Galician writers of Castilian expression such as Emilia Pardo Bazán, Valle-Inclán or Camilo José Cela. Present in the media, he is a regular contributor to the most prestigious tribune of the press in the Hispanic field, la Tercera of the daily ABC, as well as from La Voz de Galicia and from such prestigious cultural magazines as Cuadernos Hispanoamericanos or Revista de Occidente. In this field, he has won important journalistic awards such as the Pérez Lugín, the Álvaro Cunqueiro or the City of Cáceres, and a finalist of the Julio Camba Award.
Other activities involving the participant:
Poetry Room
FIL Program 
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