Friday, March 29

The Gil-Albert Institute takes up poetry with José Luis Ferris



The Juan Gil-Albert Institute of Culture has organized the first session of the new season of the “Feeding Rains” cycle. The activity will be dedicated to the Alicante author José Luis V. Ferris and will take place on Thursday, January 27, at 8:00 p.m., at the Casa Bardin in Alicante. This cycle of poetry, with more than a decade of existence and great reception by the literary community, aims to highlight the wide poetic panorama that the province of Alicante currently enjoys from a perspective of encounter and closeness.

Coinciding with the release of Ferris’s latest book –an extension of the biography of Miguel Hernández that will see the light of day February 2-, the cycle will continue for eight sessions monthly to give voice to authors of different generations and aesthetics, some with a long history and others who, despite having less experience, have a great projection in the world of poetry. In addition, attendees will be given some literary sheets with the work of each of the authors.

Is about authors who write in the two official languages ​​of the Valencian Community and they coexist in the world of verses from different artistic approaches, even interdisciplinary. In addition, the project includes the presence of poets who move within the Alicante underground and that have a long background, with the intention of broadening the official perspective and bringing us closer to the reality of citizenship.

The author

Writer, poet and essayist, Joseph Louis Ferris He has a degree in Hispanic Philology from the University of Salamanca and a doctorate in Spanish Literature from the University of Alicante. As a poet he has published Piélago (1985), Valencian Community Critics Award 1986, lime scepter (1985) second prize of the Adonais Prize 1984, firm mist (1989) and Poems of the water and the night (2010). In addition, he is the author of children’s stories The island of Tododelrevés (2007), the words of the water (2008), Gazelle of love and snow (2008), My first book on Miguel Hernández (2010) and Miguel Hernandez. shepherd of dreams (2010).

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With his first novel, You will go down to the earth kingdom, won the 1999 Azorín Prize. In 2000 he published love and nothing and in 2010 Whitman’s Dream, Malaga Novel Award 2009. He is also the author of outstanding biographies: Miguel Hernandez. Passions, prison and death of a poet (2002, 2010), Valencian Community Critics Award 2003, Maruja Mallo. The great transgressor of 27 (2004) and Carmen Count. Life, passion and verse of a forgotten writer (2007). He has also published numerous articles on literature in several Spanish newspapers and magazines and currently dedicates his time both to literary creation and to teaching at the Miguel Hernández University, where he directs the Miguel Hernández Chair.


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