Argentine poet Katya Vázquez wins poetry prize in Spain

Argentine poet Katya Vázquez has been awarded the IV Pablo García Baena Poetry Prize in Córdoba, Spain, for her collection 'Tarabust.' The prize, which saw 153 submissions from various countries, recognized Vázquez's exceptional talent.

The jury's unanimous decision highlighted Vázquez's "poetic ingenuity" in constructing an elegy of "great lyrical intensity" for a lost friendship. They commended her "elevated craft and brilliant, evocative formal rigor," noting how the "Argentine diasporic voice handles distance and closeness with a precision not predictable from the apparent simplicity of the formula."

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the jury highlighted "the poetic ingenuity deployed to construct an elegy for a lost friendship of great lyrical intensity with elevated craft and brilliant and evocative formal rigor", and stressed that "the Argentine diasporic voice handles distance and closeness with a precision that was not foreseeable from the apparent simplicity of the formula".

Born in Córdoba, Argentina, in 1997, Vázquez's work in 'Tarabust' demonstrates "powerful virtuosity in the use of language." The jury also praised her poetic perspective on everyday matters such as loss, pain, memory, friendship, physicality, and love.

This latest award positions Vázquez as one of the most interesting young voices in contemporary Spanish-language poetry. She has previously won the XLII Félix Francisco Casanova Prize for short stories and the VIII Valparaíso Poetry Prize. Her essay 'Me siento a la mesa e investigo' also earned her the Premio Ciencia con Significado. Vázquez is also the author of the poetry collections 'Entre los interludios' and 'De pesos.'

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demonstrates in this great book "a powerful virtuosity in the use of language and in the poetic gaze that it pours towards the everyday issues that cross us: loss, pain, memory, friendship, corporality, love".