Antonio Gamoneda

Antonio Gamoneda

Antonio Gamoneda. He was born in Oviedo in 1931 and moved to León in 1934, after the death of his father. When he turned fourteen, where the story of A Wardrobe Full of Shadow (Galaxia Gutenberg, 2009) ends, Antonio Gamoneda begins to work as a messenger at Banco Mercantil, where he remained for twenty-four years in different positions. If there is something that distinguishes Gamoneda from the rest of the notable writers of his generation, it is his self-taught training and his working-class condition. What is most surprising is his poetic awareness that manages to blend seamlessly with the social reality of the historical moment in which he is immersed. The recognition of his work was slow, but today he is indisputably presented as one of the great poets in the Spanish language. In 1985 he received the Castilla y León Prize for Literature, in 1987 the National Poetry Prize for Age (which included his poetry until then). In 2004 Galaxia Gutenberg published This Light. Poetry collected (1947-2004). In 2006 he received the Reina Sofía award and, that same year, the Cervantes.