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Biography

Fernando Valverde has been voted the most relevant Spanish-language poet born since 1970 by nearly two hundred critics and researchers from more than one hundred internationally recognized universities (Harvard, Oxford, Columbia, Princeton, Bologna, Salamanca, UNAM and the Sorbonne). His books have been published in different countries in Europe and America and translated into several languages. He has received some of the most significant awards for poetry in Spanish, among them the Federico García Lorca, the Emilio Alarcos del Principado de Asturias and the Antonio Machado. His book, The Insistence of Harm, has been the most-sold book of poetry in Spain for months and received the Book of the Year award from the Latino American Writers Institute of New York. For his collaboration in a work of fusion between poetry and flamenco he was nominated for a Latin Grammy in 2014. For ten years he has worked as a journalist for the Spanish newspaper El País. He founded and directed the International Festival of Poetry in Granada, one of the most important literary events in Europe, that has received more than 300 authors, including several Nobel Prize laureates. Valverde is the author of the first biography in Spanish on the poet Percy B. Shelley, titled La muerte de Adonais, which was published by Planeta. His latest book is the largest biography of Lord Byron in Spanish, published by UNAM. Valverde recently received the Dafne International Award in Italy for his defense of women's rights and his fight against gender violence.