2023-09-27 14:25:37
The Ministry of Culture announced this Wednesday the decision of the jury that awards the National Literature Prize in the Poetry category, and which has gone to Yolanda Castaño. The award is worth 30,000 euros. The jury highlights his work Materia for “the powerful poetic proposal in which each state of matter is expressed in its own tone, with poems of a painful and original metaphysics, which points to both the avant-garde and the origin with an extraordinary evocative and sensory force.”
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Further
The committee praises that the Galician author shows in the title “a work of metaphorical poetry that dialogues with personal and collective memory and, at the same time, direct, radical and feminist. It explores, in a non-complacent way, topics such as motherhood, family and customs and manages to remove reality from its usual nebula to concretize it in linguistic matters, highlighting the verbal and rhythmic game that questions the established.
Castaño (Santiago de Compostela, 1977) has a degree in Hispanic Philology from the University of La Coruña, where she also carried out audiovisual studies. She always writes in Galician and then she herself translates her texts into Spanish. The poet began her literary career in the mid-nineties, when she published individual poems and her debut work, Raise your eyelids (nineteen ninety five). He later launched Delight y We live in the cycle of Erophanies (1998). The book of the selfish (2003), Book of the selfish (2006), Depth of field (2007) y The second language (2014) are other of its examples.
Beyond her poetic activity, Castaño has worked as an independent cultural manager, creating her own Residency for Writers in Galicia. Since 2009 she has directed festivals, poetry translation workshops and a monthly cycle of recitals with Galician and international poets.
The award jury
The jury was made up of Carmen Iglesias Cano (at the proposal of the Royal Spanish Academy), Ana Romaní Blanco (at the proposal of the Royal Galician Academy), José Manuel López Gaseni (at the proposal of the Euskaltzaindia), Víctor Obiols Llandric (at the proposal of of the Institute of Catalan Studies / Institut d’Estudis Catalans), Àngel Vicent Calpe Climent (at the proposal of the Valencian Academy of Language), José Montero Reguera (at the proposal of the Conference of Rectors of Spanish Universities, CRUE), Alicia Aza Campos (at the proposal of the Collegiate Association of Writers of Spain, ACE), Rosa Romojaro Montero (at the proposal of the Spanish Association of Literary Critics), Cristina de Alzaga Fraguas (at the proposal of the Federation of Associations of Journalists of Spain, FAPE) , Rosa María García Rayego (at the proposal of the Feminist Research Institute of the Complutense University of Madrid), Ernesto Peréz Zúñiga (at the proposal of the head of the Ministry of Culture and Sports).
The previous year, the National Award went to the Málaga-based poet from Almeria Aurora Luque for her work A finite number of summers (Milenio), who declared to this medium that the awarding of the prize was “a cyclone” for her. Having won the previous year, Aurora Luque has also been part of the jury this year.
This week, on Friday, September 29, the winner of the ‘Miguel Hernández’ National Young Poetry Prize will also be announced.
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