Antonio Carvajal

Antonio Carvajal Milena (Albolote, Granada, 1943) is a poet and professor of metrics at the University of Granada.

Biography

Doctor in Romance Philology from the University of Granada or supernumerary academic of the Academy of Good Letters of Granada. He is Director of the Federico García Lorca Chair and has collaborated with numerous musicians who have put music to his texts (Antón García Abril, Juan Alfonso García, Alberto García Demestres, José García Román, Gustavo Yepes and the singer-songwriter Rosa León) and also with various plastic artists with whom he has edited books, catalogs and folders of serigraphs, photographs and engravings. He was director of the Poetry Classroom at the University of Granada and editor of the collections Suplementos de pliegos de vez en cuando and Corimbo of poetry, and since 1990 he has directed the Colección Genil of Literature of the Provincial Council of Granada. He has to his credit the Ciudad de Baeza (1987), Andalucía de la Crítica, de la Crítica de Poesía en Castilian (1990), Villa de Madrid, Francisco de Quevedo and Nacional de Poesía 2012 awards. He is considered one of the greatest poets of the current contemporary Spanish poetry and the most powerful and indefatigable of the so-called Generation of 70. His books have been highlighted as the most intense and personal that have appeared in recent decades.

Notable innovator of the Andalusian poetic tradition, creator of refined and innovative versification, he has faithfully followed, from his first collection of poems, the line of baroque poetry. This fidelity has not only been maintained in terms of the use of technical resources (Carvajal likes to use the most complicated stanza combinations and the most obviously Quevedian and Gongorin rhetorical figures), but also in terms of various approaches to the content, which is characterized by a celebration -with deep philosophical roots- of life and "cosmic love". However, it should be noted that since the mid-1980s Antonio Carvajal's poetry –without completely abandoning the already mentioned cultured structures- is also expressed in modules of popular poetry. In November 2012 he was awarded the National Poetry Prize granted by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports of the Government of Spain to distinguish the work of a Spanish author written in any of the official languages and published in 2011, for the work A floating sunflower, the prize includes a financial prize of 20,000 euros for the winner. For this book, he has also won the Andalusia Critics Award in the Poetry category.

Works

Poems

• Tigers in the garden. Madrid-Barcelona: New Science, 1968. Col. "The Bardo."
• Serenata and navaja. Barcelona: Saturn, 1973. Col. "The Bardo."
• Almost a fantasy. Granada: University of Granada, 1975. Col. "Silene."
• Siesta en el mirador. San Sebastian. Basque Editions, 1979. Col. "Ancess."
• Ballesteros site. Madrid: La Ventura, 1981.
• Sun that alludes. In Extravagant hierarchy (1958-1982). Madrid: Hiperion, 1983.
• From the wind in the jazmines. Madrid: Hiperion, 1984.
• News of September. Córdoba: Torch de Paja, 1984.
• Of a celestial whim. Madrid: Hyperion, 1988.
• Winter testimony. Madrid: Hiperion, 1990.
• Sextin silvestra. Madrid: Hiperion, 1992. Col. "The notebooks of the Hyperion Bookstore."
• Looks over the water. Madrid, Hyperion, 1993.
• Raso, milena and pearl. Valladolid: Fundación Jorge Guillén, 1996.
• Soul luscious region. Madrid: Hiperion, 1997.
• With a word inherited. Córdoba: Cajasur, 1999. Col. Sandua's notebooks.
• Madrigales y endechas. Zamora: Lucerna, 2001.
• The steps evoked Madrid: Hiperion, 2004.
• Epicuro Diapers. Huelva: Fundación el Monte, 2004. Col. Literary notebooks La Placeta.
• A clearer song. Palencia: Simancas editions, 2008. Col. "The Parnasillo."
• Letters to friends. Malaga: Publications of the old South Print, 2009. Col. "The English Castle."
• Little Homeland. Valladolid, 2009. Col. "Concrete marvels, n.o1." Dedicated to Jesús García Calderón
• A floating sunflower. Oviedo, 2011.

Compilations of works and anthologies (selection)

• Extravagant hierarchy (1968-1981). Madrid: Hiperion, 1983. Includes: Tigers in the garden, Serenata and razor, Almost a fantasy, Siesta in the viewpoint, Sun that alludes (published until publication here) Ballesteros site.
• Poems of Granada. Granada: Granada City Council, 1991.
• A Lost Star (Anthology). Madrid: Hiperion, 1999. Selection and previous study of Antonio Chicharro.
• Stadium columbarium. Grenada: Provincial Council, 1999. Includes: With a word inherited, September News and Sextine Silvestra.
• Tigers in the garden. / Almost a fantasy. Madrid: Hiperion, 2001.
• The heart and the lugane (Plusan anthology). Granada: University of Granada, 2003. Editing and coordinating Antonio Chicharro. Preliminary metric study by José Domínguez Caparrós. Study and selection of the different poems by Pilar Celma, José Enrique Martínez Fernández, Joëlle Guatelli Tedeschi, Antonio Sánchez Trigueros, Manuel Urbano, Jesús Munárriz, Rosa Navarro, Francisco Castaño, Manuel Ángel Vázquez Medel, Sergio Sciacca, Genara Pulido, Francisco Díaz de Castro, Antonio Piedra, Emilio Lledó, Claudio Cifuentes, Elsa Dehennin, Juan.
• The wizard in your windows. Anthology. Albolote: Albolote Town Hall, 2004. Foreword and selection of Dionisio Pérez Venegas. Non-venal editing.
• View of Badajoz at dawn. Dedicated to the painter Francisco Pedraja Muñoz. Literary journal Insula1970.
• Everything is poetry in Granada. Poetic panorama (2000-2015). José Martín de Gos (ancientist). Granada: Esdrújula Editions, 2015.

Works for stage

• Mariana in shadows (lyric sequence in an act). Seville: Point de lunettes, 2002. Libreto para la opera homonyima de Alberto García Demestres
• Don Diego de Granada. Malaga: e.d.a. books, 1994.

Essay

• Expressive metric versus mechanical metric (1995)
• Metaphore of prints (metric studies). Grenada: Jizo, 2002
• Poetics and poetry. Madrid: Fundación Juan March, 2004.
• Walk back. Newspaper articles 1990-2003. Seville: Point de Lunettes-Junta de Andalucía, 2009. Col. "Andalucía and the press."

Translations into other languages

• Andalusa rapsodia (Antologia di liriche scelte, tradotte e curate da Rosario Trovato). Santa Maria de Licodia: Il Fauno, 1994.
• Winter Testimony. Granada: Method, 1997. Translation by J.L. Vázquez and E. Vázquez.
• Soul Shining Region. Granada: Method, 1998. Translation by J.L. Vazquez and D. Sumpter.
• If Grenade proche. Paris: Seghers, 2005. French-Spanish bilingual anthology. Translation by a team of translators coordinated by Joëlle Guatelli Tedeschi. Translation supervised by Claude Couffon.
• Quasi a fantasy. Granada: Jizo Ediciones, Jizo Collection of Contemporary Literature 2007. French-Spanish bilingual anthology. Avant-propos de la traductrice, preface et notes Joëlle Guatelli Tedeschi. Introduction of the poet Francisco Acuyo.