Poet Antonio Cabrera has died at the age of 61, two years after having suffered a serious spinal cord injury in an accident, confirmed sources from the publisher Tusquets, which published several of his works.

Antonio Cabrera was born in Medina Sidonia (Cádiz) in 1958, and in his last years, he worked as a philosophy teacher at a high school in the town of Sagunto (Valencia). He is the author of three books of poems: En la estación perpetua (In the Perpetual Season) [Visor, 2000], with which he won the Loewe Foundation’s International Poetry Prize and the National Critic’s Award; Con el Aire (With the Air) [Visor, 2004], for which he was awarded the City of Melilla Prize, as well as the Critica Literaria Valencia Prize; and Piedras al agua (Stones in the Water) [Tusquets, 2010].

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