Elena Medel
Elena Medel (born 1985) is a Spanish poet based in Madrid. She has published many collections of poetry, and is the editorial director of La Bella Varsovia, now an imprint of the publishing house Anagrama.
Elena Medel
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- Born
- 1985
- Birthplace
- Córdoba, Spain
- Nationality
- Spain
- Occupation
- poet · writer · editor
- Fields
- belletristic literature · poetry
- Honours
- Prince of Girona award
- Languages
- Spanish
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Elena Medel (born 1985) is a Spanish poet based in Madrid. She has published many collections of poetry, and is the editorial director of La Bella Varsovia, now an imprint of the publishing house Anagrama.
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Elena Medel (born 1985) is a Spanish editor, poet and writer. The editor was born in Córdoba. Elena Medel is active in belletristic literature and poetry.
Languages used include Spanish. The editor received Prince of Girona award.
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• Born — 1985 • Birthplace — Córdoba, Spain
Early life and education
Early life and education
Elena Medel was born in Córdoba, Spain, in 1985.
Career
Career
Medel has published several collections of poetry, including Mi primer bikini (2001; DVD 2002; translated into English by Lizzie Davis, My First Bikini, 2015); Tara (2006); and Chatterton, which won the Loewe Young Poets Prize in 2014. She has also published chapbooks Vacaciones (2004) and Un soplo en el corazón (2007). She wrote "El mundo mago" (2015), an essay about Spanish poetAntonio Machado. She has also republished many of her poems in the volume Un día negro en una casa de mentira (2015), and her work has been translated into several languages, including Italian and Portuguese. She is the editorial director of La Bella Varsovia, formerly a publishing house focused on poetry. In November 2021, La Bella Varsovia became an imprint of the publishing house Anagrama, with Medel continuing as director.
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Identity
Elena Medel is recorded as having received Prince of Girona award. Medel, E.-El Mundo Mago.
Elena Medel e Natalia Litvinova na Libraría Paz de Pontevedra en maio de 2022
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1985
Elena Medel born at Córdoba.
Books of poetry
• Mi primer bikini (Premio Andalucía Joven 2001; Barcelona, DVD, 2002). 64 pages • Vacaciones (Almería, El Gaviero, 2004). 32 pages,. • Tara (Barcelona, DVD, 2006). 80 pages,.
Criticism
• Todo un placer: antología de relatos eróticos femeninos (Córdoba, Berenice, 2005). 187 pages,. • Epílogo de Blues Castellano, de Antonio Gamoneda (Madrid, Bartleby, 2007). 81 pages,.
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