Days of Tribute to Luis Alberto de Cuenca

Luis Alberto de Cuenca (Madrid, 1950)

A poet, translator and essayist, he is a professor of research at the CSIC, a number academic at the Real Academia de la Historia and a corresponding academic at the Academia de Buenas Letras of Granada. He was director of the National Library between 1996 and 2000, and today presides over its Real Patronato. He has won the Poetry Critic Award in 1986 (for La caja de plata), the National Poetry Prize in 2014 (for Cuaderno de vacaciones) and the National Translation Prize in 1989, among many other awards. His poetry books include El otro sueño (Sevilla, 1987), El hacha y la rosa (Sevilla, 1993), El reino blanco (Madrid, 2010), La mujer y el vampiro (Madrid, 2010) and Cuaderno de vacaciones (Madrid, 2014), work collected in anthologies such as Los mundos y los días (1998), Mitologías (2001) and De amor y amargura (2003). He has also worked on the translation of authors such as Homer, Euripides, Callimachus, Chrétien de Troyes, Shakespeare, Marcel Schwob or Kavafis, among many others. In 2021 he was awarded the XVIII Ciudad de Granada-Federico García Lorca International Poetry Prize.

Alicia Mariño (Cáceres, 1958)

Lawyer and PhD in French Philology, she is a full professor at UNED. She has published numerous works on fantastic literature, including those dedicated to Villiers de l’Isle-Adam, Nodier, Gautier, Maupassant, Mérimée, Barbey d’Aurevilly, Pedro Antonio de Alarcón, E.T.A. Hoffman, and Edgar Allan Poe. A regular contributor to the media, she has studied the field of women’s literature, especially authors such as George Sand and Flora Tristan, as well as the role of women in Don Quixote or in Calderón’s dramatic work. She has recently translated and adapted Time and the Conways (2011), by J. B. Priestley. Her first book of poetic creation, haikus, is Aire del tiempo (Reino de Cordelia, 2013). In these days she is about to publish an essay on Teoría de la literatura fantástica and Antología de relatos fantásticos y de terror with an extensive introduction.

Jesús Egido (Ponferrada, 1959)

He is a journalist and editor. He has been deputy director of La Crónica de León, editor-in-chief of Tribuna de Actualidad and Diario 16 and director of Madrid Económico. In 2006, he created the publishing house Rey Lear, awarded by the Ministry of Culture with two second prizes for the Best Edited Book of the Year. In 2008 he founded the publishing house Reino de Cordelia, which already has more than three hundred titles. In 2016 this label won the 1st Prize for the Best Book Published in Spain granted by the Ministry of Culture and in 2015, 2017 and 2019 another three second national awards. In 2017 the magazine Fuera de Serie awarded Jesús Egido the award for Best Editorial Work.

Bernd Dietz (Alcalá de Henares, 1953)

He has worked as a professor of English and North American literature at the universities of La Laguna (1986-1996) and Córdoba (1996-2013). He has published poetry, literary criticism, essays and translations of English and German classics. He has directed various cultural associations and publications, such as La Manzana Poética, and coordinated numerous poetry activities for the Cordoba Council City. He also cultivates political and cultural columnism. In recent years he has been interested in Judaism and political philosophy. He presides over the Liberal Circle of Andalusia.

José Gutiérrez (Nigüelas, Granada, 1955)

He is the author of the books of poems Ofrenda en la memoria (1976), El cerco de la luz (1978), Espejo y laberinto (1978), La armadura de sal (1980), De la renuncia (1989, 2nd ed. 2010; and bilingual edition in France: Du renoncement, 2010), La tempestad serena (2006), and the anthologies Poemas 1976-1996 (1997), Islas de claridad (2015) and Antes de la Renuncia (2019). It has been included in anthologies such as Las voces y los ecos (1980), Florilegium. Poesía última española (1982), Postnovísimos (1986) or Poesía española reciente 1980-2000 (2001). He has co-directed the collections: Silene and Ánade de poesía.
In the field of essays, he is the author of Introducción a la pintura de José Hernández Quero (1986), Manual de nostalgias: invitación a la poesía de Elena Martín Vivaldi (1982), poet of whose work he prepared and prologued the edition of the poetic anthology En plenitud de asombro (2002) and the miscellaneous volume Nueva luz sobre antiguos libros (2014). He created and directed the cultural magazine El Fingidor of the University of Granada, where he worked, from 1976 to 2020, in editorial, cultural and journalistic tasks. He is a member of the Academia de Buenas Letras of Granada.

Adrián J. Sáez (San Sebastián, 1988)

Professor of Spanish literature at the Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia (since 2018), holds a PhD from the University of Navarra (2013) and the Université de Neuchâtel (2017), has worked at the Universität Münster and the Universität Heidelberg (Germany) thanks respectively to the Horstmann Prize and a Mercator fellowship. He has dealt with Calderón, Cervantes, Lope, Quevedo and Luis Alberto de Cuenca, as well as the relationship between literature and art, geography and diplomacy, among other issues of the Golden Age. Some of his publications are El ingenio del arte: la pintura en la poesía de Quevedo (2015), Godos de papel: identidad nacional y reescritura en el Siglo de Oro (2019), Desde Italia con amor: Aretino en la poesía española del Siglo de Oro (2021) and El teatro de Miguel de Cervantes (with I. García Aguilar and L. Gómez Canseco, 2016), as well as the editions of La devoción de la cruz de Calderón (2014), Pedro de Urdemalas (2016), the Poesías (2016), La tía fingida (2018), and the Entremeses (2020), by Cervantes, El primer rey de Castilla (in Parte XVII, 2018), by Lope de Vega, and the Coloquio de las damas and the Sonetos lujurioso (2021), by Aretino. He is editor of El hacha y la rosa by Luis Alberto de Cuenca (Reino de Cordelia, 2020) and director of the Critical Library Luis Alberto de Cuenca (Renacimiento). He has in press an anthology of Quevedo (with F. Plata).