Miguel Pérez Alvarado (born 1979 in
Las Palmas
Las Palmas (, ; ), officially Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, is a Spanish city and capital of Gran Canaria, in the Canary Islands, in the Atlantic Ocean.
It is the capital city of the Canary Islands (jointly with Santa Cruz de Tenerife) and the m ...
,
Gran Canaria
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,
Spain
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) is a Spanish
poet
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.
Education and career
Between 1997 and 2003, he studied journalism and political science in
Madrid
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. He currently writes ''from'' Canary Islands.
His writing, whatever the genre, intends to strain thinking and language poetic nature to its mutual indistinctibility.
Following his first book in 2001 (''Teoría de la Luz)'' he has published several poem books and essays and has edited diverse authors works. Besides, an anthology of his writings and works have been published in diverse papers such as ''Caliban, 2C-La Opinión de Tenerife, Cuadernos del Matemático, ABC-Cultural, Piedra y Cielo Digital, La Revue des Belles-Lettres, Revista Fogal, Cultura la Provincia'' y la ''Revista de la Academia Canaria de la Lengu''a.
Award
In 2000, he was awarded the Tomás Morales Poetry Prize for his book ''Teoría de la luz - amor mas vivo'', establishing him as one of the promising young talents of Canarian poetry.
Notes
* The prize is awarded biennially by to Casa-Museo Tomás Morales in Gran Canaria to commemorate the 19th-Century Canarian poet Tomás Morale
1979 births
Living people
People from Las Palmas
Writers from the Canary Islands
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