Poet Olvido García Valdés Visits Duke in Madrid Center

The the poet, Olvido García Valdés, invited by the Poetics & Translation Lab, spoke with a group of undergraduate students at the Duke University in Madrid Center. García Valdés has published several books, including Exposición, which won the Ícaro Literature Prize in 1990 and Ella, los pájaros, which won the Leonor Poetry Prize in 1994. More recently, she won the National Poetry Prize for her book titled, Y todos estábamos vivos. García Valdés has also translated works such as La religion de mi tiempo and Larga carretera de arena, by Pier Paolo Pasolini.