Antonio Pau won the Essay Prize and Humanities Ortega y Gasset in 1998, and has received Lichtenberg Medal of Göttingen Academy of Sciences in 2011 for his studies of German literature. It's Academic of the Royal Academy of Jurisprudence and Legislation, and chairman of the sections of Law, Culture and Law registry. Author of more than forty books, some of them dedicated to poets and German poetry: Rilke in Toledo (1997), stateless Rilke (2011), biographies Rainer Maria Rilke. The beauty and terror (22007), Hölderlin. Ray wrapped in Song (2008) and Novalis. The nostalgia of the Invisible (2010), the test Hilde Domin in Spanish poetry (2010) and an anthology of