Premio Internacional de Poesía Federico García Lorca

Jaime Siles

Jaime Siles is a Spanish poet, literary critic, and university professor, known for his poetry that combines formal rigor with a deep reflection on literary tradition, memory, and the human condition. His work is marked by notable erudition and precise, evocative language.

Coral Bracho

Coral Bracho is a renowned Mexican poet, essayist, and translator, recognized for her profound connection with nature and her exploration of language as a tool to apprehend the sensible world. Her work is distinguished by lush imagery, enveloping rhythms, and a sensitivity that captures the textures, colors, and movements of the natural and human environment. With a literary career spanning several decades, Bracho has established herself as one of the most original and influential poetic voices in contemporary Mexican literature. Her poetry invites a sensory and reflective experience, revealing the interconnections between being, matter, and the cosmos.

Circe Maia

Circe Maia is a Uruguayan poet and professor, whose works explore with delicacy and depth themes such as nature, everyday life, memory, and the passage of time. Her poetry, often characterized by apparent simplicity, reveals great sensitivity and a unique ability to capture the essence of human experiences and the natural world.

Raúl Zurita

Luis Alberto de Cuenca

Spanish poet, literary critic, and translator, Luis Alberto de Cuenca is a prominent figure in the poetry of the second half of the 20th century and the early 21st century. His work is characterized by profound erudition, a conversational tone, and constant intertextuality with popular culture and literary tradition. Through poetry that is accessible yet rich in nuance, he explored universal themes such as love, death, and the passage of time, often with an undertone of melancholy and existential reflection.

Yolanda Pantin

Yolanda Pantin is a Venezuelan poet, essayist, and editor. Her poetic work is known for its lyrical strength, for the exploration of themes such as the city, memory, the body, and everyday experience, with a language that moves between the colloquial and the metaphorical. As an essayist and editor, Pantin has contributed to the Venezuelan literary scene, promoting the work of other writers and reflection on literature. Her poetry is marked by authenticity and the ability to capture the essence of modern life.

Julia Uceda

Darío Jaramillo Agudelo

Darío Jaramillo Agudelo was a Colombian poet, editor, and diplomat. His poetic work is known for its lyrical intensity, exploration of themes such as love, death, loneliness, and memory, and for a language that combines tradition with modernity. As an editor and diplomat, Jaramillo also played an important role in disseminating Latin American culture and literature. His poetry is marked by authenticity and the ability to evoke deep emotions.

Pere Gimferrer

Poet, essayist, and literary critic from Spain, Pere Gimferrer is a central figure in contemporary Catalan and Spanish literature. His poetic work is characterized by profound erudition, constant formal experimentation, and a desire to dialogue between popular culture and high culture. Throughout his extensive career, he has explored themes such as memory, identity, cinema, painting, and mythology, creating a rich and multifaceted lyrical universe. His influence extends to various generations of writers, consolidating his position as one of the most important authors of Catalan and Spanish literature of the 20th and 21st centuries. His work as an essayist and critic has been equally fundamental to understanding the literature and art of his time.

Ida Vitale

Rafael Cadenas

Rafael Cadenas is a Venezuelan poet, essayist, and critic, considered one of the most important voices in contemporary Spanish-language poetry. His work is characterized by a profound reflection on existence, time, memory, and the human condition, often tinged with a serene melancholy and a moving lucidity. Through refined language and apparent simplicity, Cadenas manages to address life's great questions with exceptional intellectual acuity and sensitivity, establishing himself as an indispensable reference for understanding contemporary poetry.

Rafael Guillén

Eduardo Lizalde

Eduardo Lizalde was a Spanish poet, essayist, and literary critic, whose work is marked by a profound reflection on existence, art, and the human condition. His poetry, often enigmatic and philosophical, invites introspection and questioning. Lizalde also stood out for his activity as a critic, incisively analyzing literature and culture.

Pablo García Baena

Pablo García Baena was a distinguished Spanish poet, recognized for his lyrical work of profound sensuality and his connection to surrealism and the Generation of '50. His poetry is characterized by the exploration of themes such as eroticism, the beauty of the body, classical mythology, and decadence, often tinged with a melancholic tone and great verbal plasticity. Baena cultivated a language rich in sensory images and symbolism, creating a poetic universe that is both intimate and universal. His literary career was recognized with important awards, consolidating him as a unique and fundamental figure in contemporary Spanish poetry.

Fina García Marruz

Fina García Marruz was a Cuban poet, essayist, and researcher, considered one of the central figures of 20th-century Cuban poetry and one of the most relevant female voices in Spanish-language literature. Her work is marked by erudition, philosophical depth, and the exploration of identity, memory, and the human condition. With precise and evocative language, García Marruz wove a universe of reflection in her verses about love, death, faith, and the search for transcendence. Her poetry, both intimate and universal, invites contemplation and the discovery of new perspectives on existence.

María Victoria Atencia

María Victoria Atencia is a prominent figure in 20th and 21st-century Spanish poetry, known for her erudition-marked work, formal mastery, and profound reflection on time, memory, and the human condition. Her poetry, of great stylistic rigor, explores themes such as beauty, the ephemerality of existence, spirituality, and love, using dense and imagistic language. Atencia is recognized for her ability to combine literary tradition with innovation, creating a unique work of great relevance in the contemporary poetic landscape.

José Manuel Caballero Bonald

José Manuel Caballero Bonald was a Spanish poet and novelist, a prominent figure of the Generation of '50. His work is characterized by a deep social and existential charge, addressing themes such as injustice, marginalization, historical memory, and the human condition with a powerful and often heartbreaking language. He was a chronicler of the reality of his time, especially of Andalusia, capturing in his writing the harshness of rural life and the aftermath of the war and post-war period. His literary legacy is immense and his recognition encompasses numerous awards and distinctions.

Tomás Segovia

Francisco Brines

Francisco Brines was a Spanish poet, considered one of the most important voices in Spanish poetry in the second half of the 20th century. His work is characterized by a deep reflection on the human condition, the passage of time, memory, love, and nature, with a lyrical and restrained language. Brines explored existential themes with particular sensitivity, seeking beauty in everyday experiences and in the contemplation of the natural world. His poetry, although often melancholic, possesses an inner strength and serenity that invite introspection, consolidating him as a master of contemporary Spanish lyricism.

Blanca Varela

Blanca Varela was a Peruvian poet of great relevance, whose work is characterized by philosophical depth, the exploration of language, and the search for the essence of existence. Her poems address themes such as identity, time, solitude, and the relationship of the human being with the universe, with a style marked by conciseness and imagistic power.

José Emilio Pacheco

Mexican poet, essayist, narrator, translator, and academic. Known for his introspective lyricism and his sharp reflection on time, memory, and identity. His work is characterized by deep melancholy, precise language, and a constant interconnection between the personal and the social. He reflected on history, popular culture, and the human condition in the modern world. He stood out for his ability to move between high culture and daily life, integrating diverse elements into a unique poetic worldview.

Angel González

Ángel González was a Spanish poet, one of the most representative figures of the so-called "Generation of the 50s" or "Post-war Generation." His poetry is characterized by a colloquial, ironic, and often critical tone, which addresses daily life, love, memory, and the human condition from a lucid and disillusioned perspective. With direct and accessible language, González managed to connect with a broad audience, distancing himself from grandiloquent rhetoric. His work is a mirror of the social and sentimental reality of his time, with a deep reflection on identity and the fleetingness of existence.