Ramon Irigoyen

Ramón Irigoyen (Pamplona, 9 July 1942) is a Spanish writer, translator, Hellenist and journalist.

Biography

He studied at the Seminary, which he later dropped out to study classical languages. He graduated in Classical Philology from the University of Salamanca and lived in Athens between 1966 and 1969 as a Spanish professor at his university. Returning to Spain he taught Latin at the University of Navarra (1972-1973) and at the Colegio Universitario de La Rioja until he gave up teaching in 1986 and settled in Madrid to become a professional writer.

As a poet, he likes épater le bourgeois with a free language, sometimes aggressive and full of rage, other times with tenderness and with verses full of jokes, profanity and swear words, as a counterpoint to the brand new.

As a lyricist, he has collaborated with Mocedades, Rosa León, Mango and the symphonic musician Agustín González Acilu.

In 1992 he made the version of Medea by Euripides for a show at the Barcelona Cultural Olympics directed by Núria Espert. In 2001 she did the version of Las Troyanas by Euripides for a show by Teatres de la Generalitat Valenciana co-directed by Irene Papas and the theater company La Fura dels Baus, which was re-released in Rome in September 2003.; in 2008 the Spanish Theater premiered the same version directed by Mario Gas. She has collaborated in 23 general information newspapers, on radio (Cadena COPE, Cadena SER and Radio Nacional de España) and on Telemadrid.

His work has been translated into ten languages.

As a narrator, he has published Inmaculada Cienfuegos and other stories and Un confessable pleasure, a book composed of stories written since 1980, of which only the first part remained unpublished.

He is also a renowned Greek translator. To this work we owe Poems, by Constantino Cavafis; Eight Greek poets of the 20th century, Orientations, by Odysseus Elitis and Medea, by Euripides.

As a philosopher, he has published A small history of philosophy (Oniro, 2008) in a satirical key, where he describes Plato as a gangster and delinquent, and Heidegger as mentally ill, among other judgments; on the other hand, he extols female philosophers, which he accompanies with theories such as the one that maintains that whoever is not a feminist is a public danger. ^{[citation needed ]}

Awards and recognitions

• In 1983 he won a Erotic Relation Award Play Boy with A knife in the swamp and

• In 1991 the XV Short Narrations Award “Antonio Machado” with the story Miraculous cure.
• In 2007 he was decorated with the Escudo de la Universidad del Sur del Valle (Qena, Egypt).
• In 2007 the cultural institution To Cafeníon ton Ideón (The Café de las Ideas) awarded him the Prize for the Ethics Value for his work in Salamina (Greece).

Works

Lyrical

• Love in dead flesh (1972)
• Verses of intertime (1976)
• Heavens and winters (1979)
• The fans of the Caudillo (1982)
• Holy Romancer
• Fly in mass
• Poetry gathered (1979-2011)

Narrative

• Immaculate Cienfuegos and other accounts
• Unbelievable pleasure
• Fables of Greece

History

• History of the virgo
• The madness of the Caesars.
• The Anecdotes of Rome
• The Anecdotes of Greece (2000)

Essay

• A small history of philosophy Oniro, 2008.
• The classics in the company
• The humor of love
• Puñaladas rags
• Madrid. Its people, streets and monuments
• Crazy by the Army

Translations

• Poetry anthology of C. P. Cavafis
• Eight Greek poets of the 20th century
• Medea of Euripides
• Poems of C. P. Cavafis
• Guidance Odyssey Elitis
• The Trojans of Euripides
• Prometheus chained of Esquilo
• Theatrical version The Trojans Euripides.