aurora awarded National Award Poem, on the proposal of this Thursday’s jury meeting for his work, A Finite Number of Summers, corresponding to the year 2022. The award, given by the Ministry of Culture and Sports, was awarded 20,000 euros. The jury featured his work with “exciting, demanding, transparent lyrical depth; this places the author’s unique voice as one of the greatest poets of our time. Because it is the book of joys: your beauty, your word, your lust, your life in general. A song of love to the Mediterranean and Greek tradition, looking to the universe from the past to understand the present, to interpret the present using the sources of tradition and the forms of Antiquity. “It’s a classic mosaic that we save today and takes us back to the past,” he said.
Aurora Luque (Almeria, 1962). The poet, narrator and translator earned a PhD in Classical Philology from the University of Granada. in Malaga Worked as a Greek teacher, columnist, editor and cultural managerHe occupied the management of Centro Generación del 27 between 2008 and 2011. He also created and directed the Cuadernos de Trinacria poetry collection and, together with Jesús Aguado, CEDMA’s MaRemoto poetry collection from other cultures. In 2005, he founded the Narila publishing house.. It has likewise been part of the Advisory Council of the Puerta del Mar collection and also of the CEDMA, as well as the Governing Council of the Malaga City Council Book Institute and the Social Council of the University of Malaga. He is also part of the research group. Translation, literature and society from the University of Malaga. His poems have been published in magazines such as Barcarola, Turia, Clarín, Ficciones or Zurgai.
A handful of awards
He stands out in his poetic work, among other titles: gavieraswon the Loewe Award in 2019, Orinque (2017), Narila Haiku. Port (2017), Processed lemons. mediterranean poems (2016), won the 2016 Critical Situation Award with, personal and political (2015), flanders notebook (2015), Epicurus’ candy (2008), which earned him the 27th Generation Award, Haiku by Narilla (2005), companions of Icarus (2003), temporary (1998), won the Andalusian Critics Award and hornbeam night (1994). In addition to the above-mentioned awards, he was awarded the Federico García Lorca Award from the University of Granada in 1982. hyperionidand with the Fray Luis de León Award companions of Icarus. He was also a finalist in the 1992 City of Melilla International Poetry Award and was awarded the Andalusian Radio and Television Public Award in the Literature category in 2016.
He translated ancient and modern French, Latin and Greek poems. Greco-Roman. surviving lyric from classical antiquity (2020); If not, it’s winter. Sappho partsA. Carson (2019); That’s sea life. sea in greek poetry (2015); sonnets and elegiesLouise Labé (2011); poetryRenée Vivien (2007); poems and referencesfrom Sappho (2004); anyone The dice of Eros. Greek erotic poetry anthology (2000).
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