ANTONIO COLINAS, poet, novelist, essayist, translator and journalist, is the author of several books, among them
Un año en le sur: Para una educación estética (1985)
Catorce retratos de mujer (2011), and
Canciones para una música silente. He has been awarded numerous prizes, including the National Book Award and the Queen Sofía Iberian-American Poetry Prize in 2016.