Raul Zurita

Raul Zurita: (1950), is one of the great contemporary voices of Latin American poetry. Among his books are Purgatorio (1979), Anteparaiso (1982), Canto a su amor desaparecido (1985), INRI (2003), Las ciudades de agua (2007), Zurita (2011), and La Vida Nueva, version final (2018). He has been the recipient of Guggenheim and Germany’s DAAD fellowships, among others; Chile’s National Prize for Literature, the Pablo Neruda Interamerican Poetry Prize, and Spain’s Reina Sofia Prize. His work has been translated into English, French, German, Swedish, Bengali, Hindi, Chinese, Italian, Russian, Greek and Slovenian.