Aurora Luque at “Sábado en armas”
On Saturday, February 15, 2025, at 12:30 PM, in the Sala de Talleres of the Centro Federico García Lorca, a new session of the Sábado en armas poetry reading series will take place. On this occasion, the event will feature the presence of Aurora Luque, winner of the 2022 National Poetry Prize.
Presented by: Rosa Berbel.
Sábado en armas is a monthly poetry reading series that has been held since 2022 at the Centro Federico García Lorca, organized by Granada City of Literature UNESCO and the Asociación del Diente de Oro. Poets such as Chantal Maillard, Olvido García Valdés, Ángeles Mora, María Negroni, Andrés Neuman, Chus Pato, Berta García Faet, Isel Rivero, Rodrigo García Marina, Laura Rodríguez, Jairo García Jaramillo, Erika Martínez, and Lola Tórtola have participated in the series to date.
Aurora Luque was previously invited by Granada City of Literature UNESCO to take part in one of its activities, specifically in the Futuro, humanidades series. This took place on February 28, 2022, in the Salón de Caballeros XXIV at the Madraza-Centro de Cultura Contemporánea of the University of Granada. Aurora Luque delivered the lecture “Thinking the Humanities: Two Enemies of Today and a Friend from Athens.” The full video of her talk can be viewed here.
Aurora Luque
Aurora Luque (Almería, 1962) is, above all, a poet and translator. She studied Classical Philology in Granada and resides in Málaga, where she has worked as a classical Greek teacher, columnist, editor, and cultural manager (serving as director of the Centro Generación del 27 from 2008 to 2011). Among her poetry books, notable works include Gavieras (Loewe Prize, 2019); Personal & político (2015); La siesta de Epicuro (Generación del 27 Prize, 2008); Camaradas de Ícaro (2003); Transitoria (Andalusian Critics Award, 1998); Carpe noctem (1994); Problemas de doblaje (1990); and Hiperiónida (Federico García Lorca Prize of the University of Granada, 1982). Her works have been translated into other languages, including Haikus de Narila. Portuaria (into English, 2017), Los limones absortos. Poemas mediterráneos (into Italian, 2016), Cuaderno de Flandes (into French, 2015), and Camaradas de Ícaro (into Greek, 2015). She has translated Poemas y testimonios by Sappho (reissued in 2020); works by ancient female poets in Grecorromanas (2020); and If Not, Winter by Anne Carson (2019). She has also edited the works of playwright María Rosa de Gálvez, Cuban poet Mercedes Matamoros, and poet J. M. Caballero Bonald. In 2021, she published Un número finito de veranos, a book that won the National Poetry Prize awarded by the Ministry of Culture of Spain in 2022.
Rosa Berbel
Rosa Berbel (Seville, Spain, 1997) has published Las niñas siempre dicen la verdad (2018) and Los planetas fantasma (2022). She has received, among others, the XXI Antonio Carvajal Young Poetry Prize, the Andalusian Critics’ Award for Best Debut Work, and the 2019 Ojo Crítico Poetry Prize from Radio Nacional de España. She has published a selection of her poems under the title Brillantes y caóticas (2021) and has been featured in numerous national and international poetry anthologies. Her poems have been translated into English, Polish, German, and Dutch. She currently works in the Department of Spanish Literature at the University of Granada.
