Lo animal si poema’, by translator, poet, and visual artist Verónica Jaffé Carbonell, is the winning work of the 25th Casa de América Prize for American Poetry.
Jaffé is the second Venezuelan woman to win this award. Her predecessor was Yolanda Pantin, who won it in 2017.
The award announcement was made yesterday, November 18, by the jury gathered at Casa de América, which considered that the work has great intellectual and philosophical potential: The book offers a timely network of quotations that becomes like a game of mirrors, through which the poems establish an intense conversation with some great contemporary authors.
The jury was made up of León de la Torre Krais, director general of Casa de América; Andrea Cote, winner of the award in 2024; Benjamín Prado, writer and poet; Javier Serena, director of Cuadernos Hispanoamericanos; and Jesús García Sánchez, from Editorial Visor Libros. Anna María Rodríguez Arias, literature specialist at Casa de América, acted as secretary.
