28-year-old Orlando Mondragón, has won the Loewe Poetry Prize worth 25,000 Euros.

For the first time in thirty-four editions, the Loewe award recognizes a poet under thirty years of age not in the young adult category, and for this reason, following the rules of the award, this year the Young Creation Award has not been awarded, which in 2020 was given to Mario Obrero.

Mondragón has written a book based on his experience as an emergency physician in Mexico. In his poetry, we can see the frailty that has been talked about so much in these pandemic times: the frailty of the patient, but also that of the doctor who faces death every day.

“Cuadernos de Patología humana” is a book capable of making us understand "in a very poetic way" a type of reality that lends itself little to this: illness and death, also creating a scientific lexicon that does not take away one iota from its simplicity and freshness.

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