Selena Millares (born

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, 1963) is a Spanish writer and professor. Selena Millares

She was born in

and got her Ph.D. in Literature at the

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. She has lived in

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and

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. Since 1996, she is a professor at the

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. She is the author of numerous essays as well as creative works (poetry, prose, painting), which suggest an interdisciplinary dialogue and the return to the original

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, based on the integral conception of art and thought.

Awards

*2013, International Poetry Award of the city of

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. *2014, International Literature Award Antonio Machado,

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Works

*''Páginas de arena'' (poetry), 2003 *''Isla del silencio'' (poetry), 2004 *''Cuadernos de Sassari'' (poetry), 2013 *''Sueños del goliardo'' (poetry and painting), 2013 *''Isla y sueño'' (catalogue and poetry), 2014 *''El faro y la noche'' (novel), 2015

Essays

*''La maldición de Scheherazade'', 1997 *''Rondas a las letras de Hispanoamérica'', 1999 *''Neruda: el fuego y la fragua'', 2008 *''La revolución secreta'', 2010 *''De Vallejo a Gelman'', 2011 *''Prosas hispánicas de vanguardia'', 2013

References

External links

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The Center for Visual Arts in Gran Canaria exhibits Selena Millares’s solo show ‘Isla y sueño' (in Spanish)

* ttps://web.archive.org/web/20140617094121/http://www.crimic.paris-sorbonne.fr/_MILLARES-Selena,132_.html Selena Millares at Crimic Paris Sorbonnebr>Selena Millares at Dialnet
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