Olvido García Valdés
Encyclopedia
Olvido García Valdés is a Spanish
poet
, essay
ist, translator, and professor
. She is married to the poet Miguel Casado.
from the University of Oviedo
, and Romance
Philology
from the University of Valladolid
. She is currently a professor of Literature and of Spanish in the Instituto El Greco of Toledo
, Spain
, and at Sant Em de Sant Feliu de Guíxols. In 2007 she was awarded the National Poetry Prize for her verse collection "Y todos estábamos vivos" (And we were all alive". In 2008 she retired from her post as the director of the Cervantes Institute in Toulouse
, France
. A frequent collaborator with the Revista de Occidente and Ínsula
, among others, she is also co-director of the poetry review Los Infolios, and is a member of the editorial board for El signo de gorrión, which she co-founded. Her work appears in various anthologies of Spanish literature: La prueba del nueve (1994), Ellas tienen la palabra (1997), El último tercio del siglo (1968-1998), Antología consultada de la poesía española, Madrid, Visor, 1998. Her poems have been translated into French, English, German, Swedish and Portuguese.
The author describes her work as divided into three stages. The first includes her first three verse collections: El tercer jardín (1986); Exposición (Icarus Prize for Literature, 1990); and Ella, los pájaros (Leonor Prize, 1994). One book, Caza nocturna (1997), comprises the second stage, and the third includes her two most recent: Del ojo al hueso (2001) and Y todos estábamos vivos (2006), two books marked by a profound awareness of death. Her style is characterized by juxtapositions of fractured verbal asceticism with the sustained lyrical line, quotidian commentary and existential reflections.
Spain
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poet
Poet
A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...
, essay
Essay
An essay is a piece of writing which is often written from an author's personal point of view. Essays can consist of a number of elements, including: literary criticism, political manifestos, learned arguments, observations of daily life, recollections, and reflections of the author. The definition...
ist, translator, and professor
Professor
A professor is a scholarly teacher; the precise meaning of the term varies by country. Literally, professor derives from Latin as a "person who professes" being usually an expert in arts or sciences; a teacher of high rank...
. She is married to the poet Miguel Casado.
Life and work
García Valdés holds degrees in PhilosophyPhilosophy
Philosophy is the study of general and fundamental problems, such as those connected with existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language. Philosophy is distinguished from other ways of addressing such problems by its critical, generally systematic approach and its reliance on rational...
from the University of Oviedo
University of Oviedo
The University of Oviedo is a public university in Asturias . It's the only university in the region. It has three campus and research centres, located in Oviedo, Gijón and Mieres.-History:...
, and Romance
Romance languages
The Romance languages are a branch of the Indo-European language family, more precisely of the Italic languages subfamily, comprising all the languages that descend from Vulgar Latin, the language of ancient Rome...
Philology
Philology
Philology is the study of language in written historical sources; it is a combination of literary studies, history and linguistics.Classical philology is the philology of Greek and Classical Latin...
from the University of Valladolid
University of Valladolid
The University of Valladolid is a public university in the city of Valladolid, province of Valladolid, in the autonomous region of Castile-Leon, Spain...
. She is currently a professor of Literature and of Spanish in the Instituto El Greco of Toledo
Toledo, Spain
Toledo's Alcázar became renowned in the 19th and 20th centuries as a military academy. At the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in 1936 its garrison was famously besieged by Republican forces.-Economy:...
, Spain
Spain
Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...
, and at Sant Em de Sant Feliu de Guíxols. In 2007 she was awarded the National Poetry Prize for her verse collection "Y todos estábamos vivos" (And we were all alive". In 2008 she retired from her post as the director of the Cervantes Institute in Toulouse
Toulouse
Toulouse is a city in the Haute-Garonne department in southwestern FranceIt lies on the banks of the River Garonne, 590 km away from Paris and half-way between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea...
, France
France
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. A frequent collaborator with the Revista de Occidente and Ínsula
Insula
Insula is the Latin word for "island" and may refer to:*Insular cortex, a human brain structure*Insula , an apartment building in ancient Rome that provided housing for all but the elite...
, among others, she is also co-director of the poetry review Los Infolios, and is a member of the editorial board for El signo de gorrión, which she co-founded. Her work appears in various anthologies of Spanish literature: La prueba del nueve (1994), Ellas tienen la palabra (1997), El último tercio del siglo (1968-1998), Antología consultada de la poesía española, Madrid, Visor, 1998. Her poems have been translated into French, English, German, Swedish and Portuguese.
The author describes her work as divided into three stages. The first includes her first three verse collections: El tercer jardín (1986); Exposición (Icarus Prize for Literature, 1990); and Ella, los pájaros (Leonor Prize, 1994). One book, Caza nocturna (1997), comprises the second stage, and the third includes her two most recent: Del ojo al hueso (2001) and Y todos estábamos vivos (2006), two books marked by a profound awareness of death. Her style is characterized by juxtapositions of fractured verbal asceticism with the sustained lyrical line, quotidian commentary and existential reflections.
Poetry
- El tercer jardín, ValladolidValladolidValladolid is a historic city and municipality in north-central Spain, situated at the confluence of the Pisuerga and Esgueva rivers, and located within three wine-making regions: Ribera del Duero, Rueda and Cigales...
: Editorial del Faro, 1986. - Exposición, Ferrol, 1990, premio Ícaro de Literatura.
- Ella, los pájaros, SoriaSoriaSoria is a city in north-central Spain, the capital of the province of Soria in the autonomous community of Castile and León. , the municipality has a population of c. 39,500 inhabitants, nearly 40% of the population of the province...
: Diputación, 1994, premio Leonor de Poesía. - Mimosa de febrero (1994).
- Caza nocturna, MadridMadridMadrid is the capital and largest city of Spain. The population of the city is roughly 3.3 million and the entire population of the Madrid metropolitan area is calculated to be 6.271 million. It is the third largest city in the European Union, after London and Berlin, and its metropolitan...
: Ave del Paraíso, 1997 - Si un cuervo trajera (2000).
- Del ojo al hueso, Madrid: Ave del Paraíso, 2001.
- La poesía, ese cuerpo extraño, Madrid, 2005.
- Y todos estábamos vivos, Barcelona: Tusquets, 2006, National Poetry Prize
- Esa polilla que delante de mí revolotea, Galazía Gutenberg: Círculo de Lextores, 2008, upcoming.
Prose
- Los poetas de la República (with Miguel Casado), BarcelonaBarcelonaBarcelona is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the capital of Catalonia, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of...
, 1997. - Teresa de Jesús, Barcelona, 2001.
Translations
- Pier Paolo PasoliniPier Paolo PasoliniPier Paolo Pasolini was an Italian film director, poet, writer, and intellectual. Pasolini distinguished himself as a poet, journalist, philosopher, linguist, novelist, playwright, filmmaker, newspaper and magazine columnist, actor, painter and political figure...
, La religión de mi tiempo (1997). - Anna AkhmatovaAnna AkhmatovaAnna Andreyevna Gorenko , better known by the pen name Anna Akhmatova , was a Russian and Soviet modernist poet, one of the most acclaimed writers in the Russian canon.Harrington p11...
and Marina Tsvetáieva, El canto y la ceniza. Antología poética (2005) (with Monika Zgustova)
Art Criticism
- Vincent: la sombra debida (2005). Catalogue of an exhibit of Luis Costillo.
- Agrafismos (Ondulaciónes)(2008). Catalogue of an exhibit of José-Miguel Ullán.
Awards
- 1989 - Premio Esquío de Poesía en Lengua Castellana.
- 1990 - Premio Icaro de Literatura.
- 1993 - Premio Leonor de Poesía.
- 2007 - Premio Nacional de Poesía for her book Y todos estábamos vivos.
External links
- Olvido García Valdés, Premio Nacional de Poesía, AFPAgence France-PresseAgence France-Presse is a French news agency, the oldest one in the world, and one of the three largest with Associated Press and Reuters. It is also the largest French news agency. Currently, its CEO is Emmanuel Hoog and its news director Philippe Massonnet...
, October 9, 2007. - Olvido García Valdés, premio Nacional de Poesía 2007, SwissInfo, October 9, 2007.
- http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/portal/poesia/valdes/autor.shtmlLa autora en la Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de CervantesBiblioteca Virtual Miguel de CervantesThe Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes is a large-scale digital library project, hosted and maintained by the University of Alicante in Alicante, Spain. It comprises the largest open-access repository of digitised Spanish-language historical texts and literature from the Ibero-American world...
.] - La autora en la Cátedra Miguel Delibes.
- Portal y antología de Olvido García Valdés en A media voz
- Poemas en torno a la creación poética
- "Poem" Center for the Art of Translation