Selected from over 2,000 entries by a jury of leading figures from the literary world, the winner of the LOEWE FOUNDATION Poetry Prize 2023 is Diego Roel for his collection Los cuadernos perdidos de Robert Walser. The 2023 Young Poet’s Award goes to Ernesto Delgado for his collection Pálpito.

Argentinian poet Diego Roel (b.1980, Buenos Aires) studied History of the Visual Arts at the Universidad de La Plata and has published a number of collections since 2005. He currently lives and works in Posadas, where he organises creative writing workshops.

Cuban poet Ernesto Delgado (b.1996, Placetas) holds a BA in Literature from the Universidad Central 'Marta Abreu' de las Villas. A founding member of the literary group 'La estrella en germen', his poems appear in several Latin American magazines and anthologies.