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Alí Calderón
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Alí Calderón
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Alí Calderón was born in 1982 in Mexico City. He holds a PhD in Philology, has written a monograph on Mexican poetry "Generation of '50" and now lectures on Latin American literature at the Meritorious Autonomous University of Puebla. Founder of the publishing house and literary magazine "Circle of Poetry" and the world's largest online poetry resource (Círculo de Poesía, www.circulodepoesia.com). He made his debut with the poetry collection "Prototype" (2005), then released five more books. Winner of numerous awards, including the Ramon Lopez Velarde National Poetry Prize (2004) and the East West Poetry Prize (China-USA, 2014).
Andrea Cote-Botero
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Andrea Cote-Botero
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Andrea Cote-Botero is the author of the poetry collections: Puerto Calcinado/Port in Ashes (2003), La Ruina que Nombro/ The Ruin that I name (2010) Chinatown 24/7 (2017) and En las Praderas del fin del Mundo/ In the Prairies of the end of the world. She has also published books of prose: Una fotógrafa al desnudo A Nude Photographer: A Biography of Tina Modotti and Blanca Varela y la escritura de la soledad/Blanca Varela or Writing From Solitude. She has obtained the following recognitions: The National Prize of Poetry from the Universidad Externado of Colombia (2003), the Puentes de Struga International Poetry Prize (2005) and the Cittá de Castrovillari Prize (2010) to the italian edition of Port in Ashes. Her poems have been translated into English, French, German, Catalan, Italian, Portuguese, Macedonian, Arabic, Polish and Greek. She is a Professor of Creative Writing at he Bilingual M.F.A. at UTEP.
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