The Spanish poet Olvido García Valdés has won the Pablo Neruda 2021 Ibero-American Poetry Prize, awarded by the Government of Chile.
According to the jury, which was not able to meet last year due to the Covid 19 Pandemic, her work "involves a labor of the word of a unique intensity, which in an unsuspecting way, pushes the state of the Castilian language beyond its limits.»
The jury, made up of poets Teresa Calderón (Chile), Amparo Osorio (Colombia), Daniel Saldaña París (Mexico), Mario Montalbetti (Peru) and Elvira Hernández (Chile), who won the award in 2018, also highlighted that García Valdés, "has cultivated a meditative poetry, of conciseness and silence and also dazzling and amazing, where the richness of the language renders an intimacy of speech and a very personal exploration".
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