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Dimitris Angelis
Dimitris Angelis
Dimitris Angelis (Athens, 1973) has published seven collections of poetry, as well as essays, studies and short stories. His collection Anniversary was awarded the Porfyras Prize of the Academy of Athens, in 2015 he was honored with the Corda Foundation Translation Award and his collection A deer weeping on my bed was awarded with the National Poetry Prize. He was Editor of Nea Efthini literary magazine (2011-2013) and he is actually Editor of Frear (National Prize for the best literary magazine, 2014). He is president of Poets' Circle in Greece and director of the Athens World Poetry Festival.
Marisa Martínez Pérsico
Marisa Martínez Pérsico
Marisa Martínez Pérsico (Buenos Aires, 1978) is an Argentinean poet that lives in Italy since 2010. PhD in Spanish an Latin-American Literature at the University of Salamanca, Graduated in Letters at the University of Buenos Aires, she is a professor of Spanish Language and Translation at the Udine University and also teaches Hispan-American Literature at Rome Tor Vergata University. Her poetry books: Las voces de las hojas (Argentina, 1998), Poética ambulante (Argentina, 2003), Los pliegos obtusos (Argentina, 2004), La única puerta era la tuya (Spain, 2015), El cielo entre paréntesis (Spain, 2017) and Finlandia (Círculo de poesía Mexico, 2020). Her first novel, Las manos en la madre, was published on september 2018 by RIL Barcelona Publishing House. She won literary and academic awards as the prize given by the UNESCO for an essay about the Cuban writer José Martí, the University of Buenos Aires MostrARTE award and she was a finalist of the Pilar Fernández Labrador Spanish Poetry award. Her poems have been partially translated into English, French, Macedonian, Russian, Albanian, Portuguese and Italian Language with the support of the Argentinean Cancellery. Since 2014 she is the director of the magazine Cuadernos del hipogrifo in Rome and translates Italian contemporary poetry into Spanish.
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