Raúl Quinto in conversation with Lázaro Valdelamar Sarabia

Cartagena 2025, Saturday 1 February 2025

The educator and political activist, Raúl Quinto, has a degree in History of Art from the University of Granada. In 2004 he received the Andalusia Prize for Young Poets, run by the Instituto Andaluz de la Juventud, for his poetry book La piel del vigilante. He has written criticism for magazines including Quimera and El Diagonal. In his writing, he alternates between poetry, published by La Bella Varsovia, with works of a hybrid genre, including elements of essay, fiction and poetic prose, such as the autobiographic book Hijo, and La canción de NOF4. His historical novel Martinete del rey sombra won the Cálamo Prize in the Otra Mirada category, as well as the Critics’ Prize for Spanish Fiction. In conversation with Lázaro Valdelamar Sarabia.