The Salamancan writer and teacher has earned the prize’s 8,000 Euros with her anthology, ‘Lumbre y ceniza’ (Fire and ashes), an introspective look into into the aps and downs..

of her relationship with her father. The first poetry book that fell into Yolanda Izard’s hands was “an anthology of poems by Miguel Hernández”, which her father gave her “when she was ten or eleven years old”. And as a result of “the coincidences, magic and happenstance that this life conjures up”, this writer and teacher from Salamanca ended up winning the Miguel Hernández International Poetry/Comunidad Valenciana 2019 Prize, awarded by the Fundación Miguel Hernández de Orihuela (Alicante) funded with 8,000 Euros. Her validating artistic work published by Devenir, a poetry anthology entitled Lumbre y Ceniza, is dedicated to the figure of her father, a tribute in which the main threads are the “light and the darkness that permeate all of human existence”.

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