Writing as a way of life

We resume the meetings of the Virtual Reading Club with a very special session that will count with the participation of the Spanish poet, narrator and essayist Carlos Marzal. 

Juan Vicente Piqueras, poet and director of the centre, will moderate the meeting, present and interview the guest and will hold a discussion with the participants who will have previously read some of the author's poems and texts.

Born in Valencia, Spain in 1961, Carlos Marzal received his college degree in Hispanic Philology from the University of Valencia. For ten years he has edited the journal Quites. His first book of poetry, El último de la fiesta (The Last of the Party), was published in 1987, and Marzal has published several volumes since then, the fourth volume, Metales pesados (Heavy Metals) winning the Critics Award of Spanish poetry. In 2003 he won the Antonio Machado Poetry Award, and in 2004 the XVI International Poetry Prize.

Marzal's poetry has been grouped with the la poesía de la experiencia "group" (poetry of experience) of the 1980s and 1990s, along with writers such as Luis García Montero, Felipe Benítez Reyes and Vicente Gallego.

The poet has also published a novel: Los reinos de la casualidad in 2005 and critical writing.

Among his books of poetry are: El último de la fiesta (Valencia: Renacimiento, 1987); La vida de frontera (Valencia: Renacimiento, 1991); Los países nocturnos (Barcelona: Tusquets, 1996); Metales pesados (Barcelona: Tusquets, 2001); Poesía a contratiempo (ed. by Andrés Neuman) (Maillot Amarillo, 2002); Sin porqué ni adónde (ed. Francisco Díaz de Castro) (Valencia: Renacimiento, 2003); Fuera de mí (XVI Premio de Poesía Fundación Loewe; Visor, 2004); El corazón perplejo (Barcelona: Tusquets, 2005); Ánima mía (Tusquets, 2009).