Galician Ismael Ramos was awarded the National Award. Poem Young man ‘Miguel Hernández’ 2022 for work ‘Lixeiro’ highlighted by the jury the power of his poetic imagination“.
Awarded this Friday by the Ministry of Culture and Sports, the prize was awarded €20,000 and, according to the jury, the work of Ismael Ramos (A Coruña, 1994) “stands out for the power of his poetic imagination. generation song toned down from a compromised disappointment combining irony and nostalgia”.
In addition, the jury recognized Ramos as “a fine connoisseur of the contemporary poetic tradition”. unpretentious and linguistically very refined proposal This creates an epic “both transcendent and light experiential tone”.
His work has been translated into Catalan, Finnish, French, Hungarian, English and Portuguese and has been included in numerous journals and anthologies.
The poet is the author of ‘Os fillos da fame’, for which he won the XVII ‘Johán Carballeira’ Prize for Xerais Poetry, 2016; ‘Lume’ and ‘Lixeiro’. In 2019, ‘La Bella’ in Warsaw published the first Spanish translation of his work ‘Fuegos’, for which he received the ‘Javier Morote’ Award in 2020.