First Edition Translation of Teselas by Carmen Crespo X111 César Simón Poetry Prixe 2016 Translated from Spanish by Robin Ouzman Hislop and Amparo Arrospíde
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(Original Spanish title: Teselas, translated to English by Amparo Arróspide and Robin Ouzman Hislop)
CARMEN CRESPO (Cáceres, 1962) has published three poetry collections — Tal vez huésped (awarded the II Bal Hotel poetry prize, Devenir, 2014), De música y otras pieles (Polibea, 2015) and Todo ardió luminoso (Amargord, 2016), as well as the long poem márgenes que no (awarded the I Versos al Aire poetry prize in 2015 by Fundación Centro de Poesía José Hierro) and the plaquettes Cuerpo o el corazón del mundo todavía (2014), and Puro hueco (2015). Her poems have been included in anthologies such as Voces nuevas (2012), Poemáticas naturales (2013) and Flores del desierto (2016), and also in literary magazines such as Cuadernos del Matemático, Coloquio de los Perros, Pangea, Tres en Suma and Obituarios. She is an editor on the board of poetry magazine conVersos.
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