The Galician Ismael Ramos has been awarded the National Award for Poetry Young man ‘Miguel Hernández’ 2022, for his work ‘Lixeiro’, of which the jury highlighted “the power of his poetic imagination“.
The prize, awarded this Friday by the Ministry of Culture and Sports, is endowed with 20,000 euros and, according to the jury, the work of Ismael Ramos (A Coruña, 1994) stands out for “the power of his poetic imagination, capable of undertaking a generational song intoned from a reconciled disenchantment that combines irony and nostalgia”.
In addition, the jury has noted that as “a good connoisseur of the contemporary poetic tradition”, Ramos offers a proposal devoid of affectation and very refined linguistically that forms an epic “experiential tone both transcendent and light”.
His work has been translated into Catalan, Finnish, French, Hungarian, English and Portuguese, and included in numerous magazines and anthologies.
The poet is the author of ‘Os fillos da fame’, a work with which he won the XVII ‘Johán Carballeira’ Prize for Xerais Poetry, 2016; ‘Lumes’ and ‘Lixeiro’. In 2019 he published in ‘La Bella Warsaw’ the first Spanish translation of his work, ‘Fuegos’, for which he received the ‘Javier Morote’ Award in 2020.