Ismael Ramos has been awarded the ‘Miguel Hernández’ National Youth Poetry Prize for the year 2022, for his work ‘Lixeiro’, (Editorial: Xerais, in Galician), ‘Ligero’, (Editorial La Bella Varsovia in Spanish), as proposed by the jury.
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The prize, awarded by the Ministry of Culture and Sport, is worth 20,000 euros.
The jury singled out his work “for the power of his poetic imagination, capable of undertaking a generational song sung from a reconciled disenchantment that combines irony and nostalgia”.
In addition, the jury pointed out that as “a connoisseur of the contemporary poetic tradition, Ismael Ramos offers a proposal devoid of affectation and very refined linguistically that forms a sort of experiential epic with a tone that is both transcendent and light”.
Biography
Ismael Ramos, born in Mazaricos (A Coruña) in 1994, is the author of the poetry books ‘Os fillos da fame’ (XVII Premio “Johán Carballeira” de Poesía; Xerais, 2016), ‘Lumes’ (Apiario, 2017) and ‘Lixeiro’ (Xerais, 2021). In 2019 he published in La Bella Varsovia the first translation into Spanish of his work, ‘Fuegos’, for which he received in 2020 the “Javier Morote” Prize of Las Librerías Recomiendan, and later ‘Lixeiro’ (Xerais, 2021), published in Spanish under the title ‘Ligero’ (La Bella Varsovia, 2021).
His poems have also been translated into Catalan, Finnish, French, Hungarian, English and Portuguese, and have been included in numerous magazines and anthologies.
Jury
The jury, chaired by María José Gálvez Salvador, Director General of Books and Reading Promotion, with Jesús González González, Deputy Assistant Director of the Subdirectorate General for the Promotion of Books, Reading and Spanish Literature, acting as Vice-Chairman, was formed by Carlos García Gual, appointed by the Royal Spanish Academy; Amaia Jaureguizar Ormaechea, for the Real Academia de la Lengua Vasca/Euskaltzaindia; Ana María Villalonga Fernández, for the Instituto de Estudios Catalanes/Institut d’Estudis Catalans; Maria Àngels Francés Díez, for the Academia Valenciana de la Lengua/Acadèmia Valenciana de la Lengua; María do Cebreiro Rábade Villar, for the Conference of Rectors of Spanish Universities (CRUE); José Luis Morante Martín, for the Spanish Writers’ Association (ACE); Ioana Ruxandra Gruia, for the Spanish Association of Literary Critics; Luis Fermín Moreno Álvarez, for the Federation of Spanish Journalists’ Associations (FAPE); Fernando Reviriego Picón, for the UNED Gender Studies Centre; Yolanda Castaño Pereira, for the Ministry of Culture and Sport and María Elena Higueruelo Illana, the 2021 prize-winner.