Álvaro Pombo, Ian Gibson and Ángel Antonio Herrera, Madrid Critics’ Awards for novels, essays and poetry

Born in Santander in 1939, Pombo has been one of the most decisive writers for decades, having books that can already be considered classics, such as ‘The iridium platinum meter’, ‘Squaring the circle’ or ‘The hero’s tremor’. And having in possession an almost incredible number of the most prestigious awards.

‘A carmen in Granada’ by Ian Gibson is the book that won the Madrid Critics’ Prize for non-fiction, a book in which Ian Gibson tells his biography. Step by step, the reader discovers the life and literary experience of the best biographer our country has had in many years. .

Born in Dublin in 1939, naturalized Spanish since 1984, Ian Gibson is one of the most prestigious hispanists and the author who has exposed thousands and thousands of readers to the lives of great writers, Federico García Lorca especially. He is also the author of extraordinary biographies such as ‘Luis Buñuel, the forging of a universal filmmaker’, ‘Light with luggage’, or ‘Dalí young, Dalí brilliant’.

‘The nocturnal mirrors’ is the award-winning book of poetry, and its author Ángel Antonio Herrera, a book that brings together all of his poetic production from 1984 to 2014, offering the reader a careful poetrywhere the language reaches a high point, filled with imagination and a sensuality that is as difficult to achieve as it is attractive to read.

Born in Albacete in 1964, Ángel Antonio Herrera has known how to alternate, like few others, a brilliant career as a journalist with the writing of an already extensive work, which includes novels, poetry and essays, and where human beings always have a place of observation and knowledge.