Lettura registrata nel 2009 per la serie “Voz Viva de Mexico” dell’Università Nazionale Autonoma del Messico UNAM. L’archivio “Voz Viva” è stato dichiarato Memoria del Mondo dall’UNESCO. Esta lectura fue grabada en 2009 para la serie «Voz Viva de México» de la Dirección de Literatura de la UNAM. “Voz Viva” ha sido nombrada Memoria del Mundo por la UNESCO. https://vozviva.unam.mx/

Poet, essayist and translator. His extraordinary collections of poems include: Cantos, Una isla, Los Cuadernos del destierro (Notebooks of Exile), Falsas Maneubras, Intemperie, Memorial, Amante, Dichitos and Gestiones. For the quality of his work, he has received awards such as the National Prize for Non-Fiction (1984), the National Prize for Literature (1985), the San Juan de la Cruz Prize (1991), the FIL Prize for Literature in Romance Languages (2009), the García Lorca Prize (2015) and the Cervantes Prize (2022), the most important literary prize in the Spanish language. He returned to Caracas in 1958 after being exiled in 1952 for his communist activism. He then later moved away from politics, claiming his freedom of thought. Regarding his work in Spanish, the critic Juan Gustavo Cobo Borda described him as a 'secret renovator

of the language'.

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Rafael Cadenas