Jenaro Talens. (Tarifa, 1946) is a poet, essayist and translator. Professor of Audiovisual Communication at the University of Valencia and Professor Emeritus of Hispanic Literatures, Comparative Literature and European Studies at the University of Geneva, he has published extensively on semiotics, literary theory and history, and film theory and history; and translated, among others, Petrarca, Shakespeare, Hölderlin, Goethe, Novalis, Trakl, Rilke, Pound, Heaney, Júdice, Beckett or Natan Zach.