Felipe Benitez Reyes

Felipe Benítez Reyes (Rota, Cádiz, February 25, 1960) is a Spanish writer, author of a versatile body of work that includes poetry, novels, short stories, essays, and opinion articles.

Biography

He began his first studies in Rota, his birthplace, and later continued at the San Luis Gonzaga School in El Puerto de Santa María. He studied Hispanic Philology at the universities of Cádiz and Seville. He currently resides in his hometown.

Felipe Benítez Reyes embodies the lucid and disenchanted vision of existence. With brilliant and precise language, the author contemplates reality with irony and a demystifying purpose.

Her books are translated into English, Italian, Russian, French, Romanian and Portuguese.

Work

Poetry

• Paradise manuscript (Seville: Air Street, 1982)
• The vain worlds (Grenada: Yellow Maillot, 1985)
• Author ' s evidence (Seville: Renaissance, 1989)
• The bad company (Valencia: Mestral, 1989)
• Particular Shadows (Madrid: Visor, 1992)
• Improbable lives (Madrid: Visor, 1995)
• The luggage is open (Barcelona: Tusquets, 1996)
• Escape from poisons (Barcelona: Tusquets, 2000)
• Same moon (Madrid: Visor, 2007)
• Identities (Madrid: Visor, 2012)
• Already the shadow (Madrid: Visor, 2018)

The last great anthology of his poetry is Libros de poemas (Madrid: Visor, 2009), which brings together his production from 1978 to 2008.

Translations

• T. S. Eliot: Prufrock and other observations (2000), translation and notes
• Vladimir Nabokov: Poems (2004)

Essay

• Rafael de Paula (1987)
• Bazaar of wits (1991), literary articles 1984-1990
• The shipwreck suitcase (1997), notebook 1981-1990
• People of the century (1997)
• Shade coat (1997), articles 1985-1991
• Serrania de Ronda (1999), travel book
• The sunset and the east (2000), press articles 1990-2000
• Rolling paper (2001), press articles
• Don Quixote and Don Juan, mystical dolls (2005)
• The rhetoric responses (2011)
• Universal Office of Solutions (2013), press articles
• Politics and polychinela (2014), press articles
• The honorary intruder (2019)

Narrative

• Goblin girl (1991)
• Trying on you (1992)
• A dangerous world (1994), stories
• The property of paradise (1995)
• Smoke (1995)
• with Luis García Montero: Prints, row 13 (1996)
• Ways to lose (1997)
• The Bride of the World (1998)
• What comes after the worst (1998), youth novel
• Wrong books (2002), youth novel
• The Thought of Monsters (2002)
• Market of mirages (2007)
• The cowardly horse (2008), youth novel
• Stellar offices (2009), compilation of accounts A dangerous world, Ways to lose and the unpublished Fragilities and disorders
• Tautological formulations (2010), stories
• Each and every one I miss (2013), stories
• The chance and vice versa (2016)
• By fined regions (2020), stories

Theater

• The wandering astrologers: legend in verse in three acts (2005)

Awards

• Ciutat de Valencia 1988 of poetry, by the bad company (1985-1987) (1988)
• Loewe poetry award, for Particular Shadows (1992)
• Seville Ateneo Prize for novel, by Smoke (1995)
• International Poetry City Award for Melilla Improbable lives (1995)
• Critics Prize, for Improbable lives (1996)
• Spanish National Poetry Award, by Improbable lives (1996)
• Gold Hucha Tales Contest, by The champion (2004)
• Nadal Prize for novel, for Market of mirages (2007)
• Julio Camba Prize for Journalism, for Time and Paradise (2007)