Ali Salem Iselmu was born in Western Sahara in 1970 and studied journalism in Cuba. He is also a founding member of Generación de la Amistad Saharaui (Sahrawi Friendship Generation) a poetry anthology and collective calling attention to the human rights violations and resisting the Moroccan occupation of Western Sahara. After returning to the refugee […]
Gonzalo Rojas was born on the 20th of December 1917, in the port of Lebu (VIII Region) in Chile. He studied at the University of Chile. He was the editor of the magazine Antarctica in Santiago and Professor in Valparaiso. Between 1938-1941 he participated in the surrealist group Mandrágora founded by Braulio Sands, Teófilo Cid […]
Zahra el Hasnaui was born in Aaiún, the old capital of Spanish Sahara. She studied languages in Madrid and London and has worked for the Saharawi National Radio. She is a member of the Saharawi Friendship Generation.
Tamara Kamenszain was born in Buenos Aires in 1947. Having abandoned her degree in philosophy, she began work as a journalist. She edited the independent magazine, 2001 before becoming editor of the cultural pages of the newspapers La Opinionand Clarin. In 1972 Kamenszain received the poetry prize of the National Arts Fund of Argentina for […]
Pedro Serrano has published five collections of poems: El miedo (Fear) México El Tucán de Virginia, 1986; Ignorancia (Ignorance) México El Equilibrista, 1994; Tres poemas (Three poems) Caracas Pequeña Venecia, 2000; Turba (Peat) Ediciones sin Nombre, Mexico, 2005; and Desplazamientos (Displacements), Editorial Candaya – Candaya Poesia 5 (2007). His latest collection of poems, Nueces was […]
David Huerta was born in Mexico City in 1949, and passed away in 2022. He was one the leading poets of the generation that first came to prominence during the 1970s in Mexico. He published his first book of poems, El Jardín de la luz [The Garden of Light] (1972), while still a student in […]
Marcelo Ensema Nsang was born in 1947 in Equatorial Guinea, the only Spanish-speaking country in Afria. Marcelo left Guinea in 1961 to study at the seminary in Granada (Spain) and was ordained a priest in 1973. During his stay in Granada, Marcelo began writing poetry when he became involved with a literary movement called Redondela. […]
Blanca Varela was born in Lima, Peru, in 1926. The Mexican Nobel Laureate, Octavio Paz, praised her poetry and identified one of her gifts as knowing when to be silent if it is time not to write. It’s true that she has not published prolifically, but perhaps this could account for the dense precision of […]
Coral Bracho was born in Mexico City in 1951. She has published six books of poems: Peces de piel fugaz [Fish of Fleeting Skin] (1977), El ser que va a morir [The Being that is Going to Die] (1981), Tierra de entraña ardiente [Earth of Burning Entrails] (in collaboration with the painter Irma Palacios, 1992), […]
Serafina recently graduated with First Class Honours from King’s College London where she read French and Hispanic Studies. During her degree she specialised in literary translation and wrote her dissertation on translating gender in Latin American Literature. In 2014 she spent 7 months living in Cuba where she began a project working with young Cuban […]