The Sevillian writer Julia Uceda passed away this Sunday at the age of 98. She was one of the most personal and renowned voices of contemporary Spanish poetry.
Linked to the Vandalia Collection of the José Manuel Lara Foundation since its inception, it was with this label that she published her latest work Complete poems (2023), the Foundation reported on its social networks.
Our letters are in mourning today
Born in Seville in 1925, she graduated in Philosophy and Literature from the University of Seville. She taught for several years, earning a doctorate from the same university with a thesis on the poet José Luis Hidalgo. She was a professor at Michigan State University from 1965 to 1973.
After a brief stay in Spain, she left the country again to live in Ireland until 1976, when she moved to Galicia, where she currently lives. She was a professor of Spanish Literature at National Institutes of Secondary Education and University Schools. Her critical research work can be found in specialized literary journals in the United States and Spain.
Awards
2007 National Critics Award in the Poetry category. He won a second prize in the Adonais Poetry Prize with his collection of poems Strange youth and in 2003 he won the National Poetry Prize for the publication of an anthology of his complete works In the wind, towards the sea.
His poems have been translated into Portuguese, Italian, English, Chinese and Hebrew, and anthologized and published in various Spanish, Italian, North American and Chinese publications.
He was a corresponding member of the Royal Seville Academy of Fine Letters, the Spanish Association of Literary Critics and the International Association of Hispanists.
Source: www.eldiario.es
