POESÍA eres tú
The LOEWE Foundation and its International PoetryPrize marked their 30th anniversary in 2017. For the last three decades, the LOEWE Foundation has collated the best poetry in Spanish, which was commemorated with 'POESIA eres tu', a documentary produced by the Foundation that will be released on National Poetry Day.
The film casts an all-encompassing gaze at a genre in constant evolution, to which the LOEWE FOUNDATION has paid tribute since 1988.
Winners of the XXXVII LOEWE FOUNDATION International Poetry Prize
Selected from over 2,000 entries by a jury of leading figures from the literary world, the winner of the LOEWE FOUNDATION Poetry Prize 2024 is Javier Velaza for his book Las ignorancias. The 2024 Young Poet’s Award goes to Omar Castro Villalobos for his collection Habitación persona sola.
Javier Velaza
Javier Velaza (Castejón, Navarra, 1963) is a professor of Latin Philology at the University of Barcelona and a specialist in classical literature, Roman epigraphy, and Paleohispanic languages. As a poet, he has been awarded various literary prizes.
Omar Castro Villalobos
Omar Castro Villalobos (Lima, 1992) is an artist and writer. His practice explores the relationships and tensions between intimate and social experiences surrounding the city, landscape, and territory in the context of the contemporary global crisis. To this end, he works with visual and textual records from various sources through strategies such as transtextuality, intervention, and sampling.
History of the LOEWE Poetry Prize
An accolade awarded on a yearly basis, the LOEWE FOUNDATION International Poetry Prize was established in 1988 by the foundation's president at the time, Enrique Loewe, together with the poet Luis Antonio de Villena and the editor Jesús Visor.
In the thirty-six years since it was first established, the judges have recognised some of the most outstanding poets in the Spanish-speaking world.